{"id":1029,"date":"2015-11-05T17:42:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T17:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:27:00","slug":"holiday-party-give-the-host-a-bottle-of-fine-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Party? Give The Host a Bottle of Fine Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I asked a wine expert\u00a0what his favorite\u00a0wine is for the holidays. He offered two suggestions,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discoverbeaujolais.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beaujolais<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amarone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amerone<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beaujolais\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beaujolais<\/a> seemed to be his favorite. Apparently it is light, fruity and quite refreshing, while Amerone is quite different, being a rich, red and dry Italian wine. He indicated most wine shops should have either readily available.<\/p>\n<p>It is always a good practice\u00a0to present your host with a gift of appreciation. Make your gift stand out by presenting\u00a0something special that you can share a little knowledge about. You&#8217;ll be the favorite guest at the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked a wine expert\u00a0what his favorite\u00a0wine is for the holidays. He offered two suggestions,\u00a0Beaujolais and\u00a0Amerone.\u00a0Beaujolais seemed to be his favorite. Apparently it is light, fruity and quite refreshing, while Amerone is quite different, being a rich, red and dry Italian wine. He indicated most wine shops should have either readily available. It is always a good practice\u00a0to present your host with a gift of appreciation. Make your gift stand out by presenting\u00a0something special that you can share a little knowledge about. You&#8217;ll be the favorite guest at the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[251,250,253,252],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-amerone","tag-beaujolais","tag-gifts","tag-holiday-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3021,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/3021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}