{"id":16559,"date":"2014-05-28T02:07:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T09:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16559"},"modified":"2014-05-28T02:07:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T09:07:52","slug":"temecula-balloon-and-wine-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/temecula-balloon-and-wine-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Temecula Balloon and Wine Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/tembalo.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you ride a hot air balloon\u00a0in Temecula there&#8217;s often a champagne toast at the end of the\u00a0adventure.\u00a0The pairing of hot air balloons and Temecula Valley wines is\u00a0sublime.\u00a0At this year&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/temecula-balloon-wine-festival.html\">Temecula Balloon and Wine Festival<\/a> May 30-June 1, 2014, there&#8217;s plenty of wine (and beer) paired with foods to\u00a0accompany\u00a0rockin&#8217; sounds. Concerts are a highlight to the event held around the placid waters of Lake Skinner. It&#8217;s a little bit of\u00a0country Friday night with Justin Moore, Frankie Ballard (Helluva Life) and Tim Charron who plays &#8220;country rock with a twist of lime.&#8221; \u00a0On Saturday the music is rock and Indie featuring the Gin Blossoms and other great acts. Then on Sunday the band, Warrant, performs on the Wine Stage. Though balloon rides typically don&#8217;t take place during the festival due to high demand, go early or stay late by a day and sail above the vine-covered valley in a beautiful balloon. Up, up and away!<\/p>\n<p>Check out A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arestravel.com\/5454_attraction-info_a170.html\">Grape Escape Hot Air Balloons<\/a>. We&#8217;ve ridden them and had a great experience!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you ride a hot air balloon\u00a0in Temecula there&#8217;s often a champagne toast at the end of the\u00a0adventure.\u00a0The pairing of hot air balloons and Temecula Valley wines is\u00a0sublime.\u00a0At this year&#8217;s\u00a0Temecula Balloon and Wine Festival May 30-June 1, 2014, there&#8217;s plenty of wine (and beer) paired with foods to\u00a0accompany\u00a0rockin&#8217; sounds. Concerts are a highlight to the [&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\/16559"}],"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=16559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}