{"id":23838,"date":"2017-01-24T16:33:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T00:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23838"},"modified":"2017-01-24T16:33:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T00:33:44","slug":"take-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/take-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Time for Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/supwinbr.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>California is America&#8217;s number one wine state (85% of U.S. production) and the fourth largest producer in the world after France, Italy and Spain. Winegrapes are grown in 49 of 58 counties with benefits to the state such as $31.9 billion retail revenue, 325,000 jobs for\u00a0Californians, $7.6 billion in taxes and 23.6 million tourist visits to California wineries each year generating $7.2 billion in annual tourism expenditures. Locals enjoy the benefits all year long with access to great wines, tasting opportunities at thousands of wineries &amp; tasting rooms, and fantastic festivals.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/january-wine.html\">January Wine Festivals <\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>SACRAMENTO Unified Wine and Grape Symposium, January 24-26, 2017<\/li>\n<li>TEMECULA Barrel Tasting Weekend! has moved to January 28-29<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/february-wine.html\">February Wine Festivals <\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>SANTA ANA: Orange County Food &amp; Wine Festival\u00a0February 5<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: Polk Street Valentine Wine Walk February 9<\/li>\n<li>TEMECULA: Annual Pechanga Wine&amp; Chocolate Festival February 10-11<\/li>\n<li>LODI: Lodi&#8217;s Wine &amp; Chocolate Weekend February 11-12<\/li>\n<li>MADERA: Wine &amp; Chocolate Weekend February 11-12<\/li>\n<li>SANTA YNEZ VALLEY: Wine Fantasy in February February 17-20<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: Zinfandel Experience February 23-25<\/li>\n<li>SANTA BARBARA: Vine to Wine Weekend February 25-26<\/li>\n<li>BOONVILLE: International Alsace Varietals Festival February 25-26<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California is America&#8217;s number one wine state (85% of U.S. production) and the fourth largest producer in the world after France, Italy and Spain. Winegrapes are grown in 49 of 58 counties with benefits to the state such as $31.9 billion retail revenue, 325,000 jobs for\u00a0Californians, $7.6 billion in taxes and 23.6 million tourist visits [&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\/23838"}],"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=23838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}