{"id":13430,"date":"2013-08-24T02:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=13430"},"modified":"2013-08-24T02:00:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T09:00:23","slug":"california-grape-stompin-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-grape-stompin-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"California Grape Stompin&#8217; 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/stpom.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a busy year and bound to be a great harvest for wine growers throughout the State of California. Anywhere you find grapes, there&#8217;s a possibility you&#8217;ll find stomping to celebrate the new harvest. Drinking stomped grape-wine isn&#8217;t commerically permitted in California and many other places now, but one of Napa County&#8217;s great wine-makers remembers making it that way. \u00a0Award-wining, 90-year young vintner\u00a0Michael Grgich, stomped grapes \u00a0in Croatia as a child. Thanks to the memories, Grigch Hills Estate in St. Helena invites guests to come &amp; stomp between Labor Day and Halloween. In addition to this &#8220;anytime&#8221; attraction, grape stomping festivals ring in the new harvest season each summer and fall with special events \u00a0that include gourmet dinners, fairs and parties. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/wineries\/california-grape-stomps.html\"><strong>Here are are few GRAPE STOMPS \u00a0that we rounded up for 2013<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you want to STOMP today, August 24, 2013, head for:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ESCONDIDO: Orfila Winery Grape Stomp<\/li>\n<li>ST. HELENA: Trinchera Family Estates Harvest Stomp<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE: Italian Family Festa Grape Stomp<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy year and bound to be a great harvest for wine growers throughout the State of California. Anywhere you find grapes, there&#8217;s a possibility you&#8217;ll find stomping to celebrate the new harvest. Drinking stomped grape-wine isn&#8217;t commerically permitted in California and many other places now, but one of Napa County&#8217;s great wine-makers remembers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13430"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}