{"id":17472,"date":"2014-09-13T00:32:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T07:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17472"},"modified":"2014-09-13T00:35:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T07:35:58","slug":"wine-use-it-or-lose-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wine-use-it-or-lose-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine: Use it or lose it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/wincelar.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Robert Renzoni, Mike Grgich, Herzog Wine Cellars<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of the recent\u00a0Napa earthquake several wineries reported losses of irreplaceable wines, some dating back nearly a century. It turns out that wine\u00a0is\u00a0a whole lot more than a tasty beverage. Wine\u00a0is filled with stories to tell,\u00a0and can stir memories of people and events in our lives. A letter I received in the mail from my sister drove home this fact. The note said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you for the 2 boxes of wine that we&#8217;re slowly making our way through. It&#8217;s fun to take the first taste to see if the wine was affected by the heat! Most have been OK! I&#8217;m surprised. Just a word of advice: when you get wine in the future, USE IT!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The backstory\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I recently gifted my sister bottles of wine\u00a0given to me during travels as a journalist or as presents\u00a0from family and friends. \u00a0I&#8217;d tasted most the vintages and\u00a0saved\u00a0the\u00a0unopened wine gifts for\u00a0sentimental reasons. Some sat in\u00a0the\u00a0garage&#8211;for years!\u00a0\u00a0Among the collection:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A bottle of\u00a0wine\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/age-is-a-good-thing-when-it-comes-to-wine.html\">Mike Grgich<\/a> gave me in\u00a01980, pitching his upstart winery in Napa Valley<\/li>\n<li>A kosher wine from the upstart Herzog Wine Cellars in Oxnard where we were treated to a history tour and kosher lunch<\/li>\n<li>A bottle of wine from Robert Renzoni who said at a dinner in the\u00a0historic\u00a0Stone House at Temecula Creek Inn that he would one day own a winery to fulfill his dream of carrying on the family name<\/li>\n<li>A bottle of wine from a visit to the renovated Niebaum-Coppola Chateau\u00a0where we\u00a0interviewed Eleanor Coppola<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Renzoni, Mike Grgich, Herzog Wine Cellars In the aftermath of the recent\u00a0Napa earthquake several wineries reported losses of irreplaceable wines, some dating back nearly a century. It turns out that wine\u00a0is\u00a0a whole lot more than a tasty beverage. Wine\u00a0is filled with stories to tell,\u00a0and can stir memories of people and events in our lives. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/17472"}],"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=17472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}