{"id":8429,"date":"2013-11-09T00:41:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T00:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=8429"},"modified":"2013-11-09T00:41:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T00:41:38","slug":"in-serbia-judging-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/in-serbia-judging-wine","title":{"rendered":"In Serbia judging wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1739.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8435\" alt=\"IMG_1739\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1739.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1739.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1739-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1739-150x137.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1739-400x366.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in Serbia. It is my first time here, and I&#8217;ve come to act as a judge in the Serbian wine awards competition Great Serbian Wine Tasting 2013, which is organized by online magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vino.rs\">www.vino.rs<\/a> and Vino &amp; Fino magazine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8436\" alt=\"serbia1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/serbia1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/serbia1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/serbia1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/serbia1-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/serbia1-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is being held in Belgrade, but so far I haven&#8217;t seen much of this famous city: it was dark when I arrived, and we have used up the daylight hours today with our judging. Tomorrow I should put that right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1728.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8434\" alt=\"belgrade fortress\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1728.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1728.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1728-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1728-112x150.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last night&#8217;s dinner was held at a restaurant near the atmospheric Kalmegdan (fortress), which looks great lit up.<\/p>\n<p>Today was spent judging. Two panels of five each, tasting 80 wines each. The quality was much higher than I was expecting, with a lot of well made wines, and a few pretty serious ones. Tomorrow we taste the 33 best to decide on the silver and gold medals. And then it&#8217;s the results ceremony, a gala dinner, and party time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8437\" alt=\"serbia2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/serbia2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/serbia2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/serbia2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/serbia2-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/serbia2-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Serbia. It is my first time here, and I&#8217;ve come to act as a judge in the Serbian wine awards competition Great Serbian Wine Tasting 2013, which is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8438,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429\/revisions\/8438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}