{"id":19544,"date":"2015-02-02T02:42:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T10:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=19544"},"modified":"2015-02-02T02:42:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T10:42:23","slug":"anderson-valley-where-the-hops-meet-the-vines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/anderson-valley-where-the-hops-meet-the-vines\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Valley, where the Hops meet the Vines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/supwinbr.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For beer drinkers the rip-roaring Anderson Valley&#8217;s <strong>Boonville Beer Festival<\/strong> (avbc.com) really put the region on the map 19 years ago. However, the\u00a0unique climate slightly inland from the Pacific coast creates ideal conditions for wine grapes, especially great for Alsace style white wines. This weekend Anderson Valley Winegrowers Association (avwines.com) celebrates with its annual International<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/food-festivals-february.html\"> Alsace Varietals Festival<\/a> held at the Mendocino Fairgrounds in downtown Boonville. Wines to be poured include Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc and Muscat at the Feb. 7, 2015 festival where 100 wines\u00a0are featured. Look for names &#8212;\u00a0Castella di Amorosa, Claiborne &amp; Churchill, Greenwood Ridge Vineyards, Husch Vineyards, Lazy Creek Vineyards, Navarro Vineyards, Philo Ridge Vineyards and many others. Later\u00a0you may want to return for another tasty event,<strong> Anderson Valley Pinot Noir<\/strong> Festival May 15-17, 2015 or the <strong>Anderson Valley Barrel Tasting Weekend<\/strong> July 25-26, 2015. But\u00a0sandwiched\u00a0between these signature\u00a0wine events is Boonville Beer Festival May 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For beer drinkers the rip-roaring Anderson Valley&#8217;s Boonville Beer Festival (avbc.com) really put the region on the map 19 years ago. However, the\u00a0unique climate slightly inland from the Pacific coast creates ideal conditions for wine grapes, especially great for Alsace style white wines. This weekend Anderson Valley Winegrowers Association (avwines.com) celebrates with its annual International [&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\/19544"}],"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=19544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}