{"id":356,"date":"2018-05-11T11:56:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T18:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/?p=356"},"modified":"2018-05-11T11:56:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T18:56:10","slug":"from-the-other-side-of-the-tasting-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"From the other side of the tasting table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-offset-key=\"d68jt-0-0\">This is more of a plea than an admonishment from <span style=\"color: #006633;\"><strong>Sostevinobile<\/strong><\/span>. If you are pouring at a trade tasting, please do not tell <strong>Your West Coast Oenophile<\/strong> <em>(or anyone else, for that matter)<\/em> what score Robert Parker or Wine Spectator gave you. Nor its Double Gold from some competition here or Colorado or wherever. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"18f5g\" data-offset-key=\"3po3c-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3po3c-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3po3c-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"18f5g\" data-offset-key=\"6fgo8-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6fgo8-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6fgo8-0-0\">This information is only valuable for incentivizing someone to try your wine. It\u2019s already in my glass. Please let me assess it without preconception or prejudice. Your pronouncement will only skew my assessment, and not necessarily favorably.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"18f5g\" data-offset-key=\"3o32d-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3o32d-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3o32d-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"18f5g\" data-offset-key=\"1403a-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1403a-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"1403a-0-0\">The only exception: if your wine is one of the 22 selections that did <strong>NOT<\/strong> win a medal at the San Francisco Chronicle Competition. <em><strong>THAT<\/strong><\/em> is a wine I want to try!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times; font-size: 12pt;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is more of a plea than an admonishment from Sostevinobile. If you are pouring at a trade tasting, please do not tell Your West Coast Oenophile (or anyone else, for that matter) what score Robert Parker or Wine Spectator gave you. Nor its Double Gold from some competition here or Colorado or wherever. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sostevinobile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}