{"id":9,"date":"2007-12-18T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/?p=9"},"modified":"2011-06-20T21:20:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T02:20:47","slug":"wine-from-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/2007\/12\/wine-from-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine from Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_kufElHa-EkM\/R2dCzCbzwiI\/AAAAAAAAAMM\/aMLs_K5Ezv4\/s1600-h\/IMG_1608.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145154543888351778\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_kufElHa-EkM\/R2dCzCbzwiI\/AAAAAAAAAMM\/aMLs_K5Ezv4\/s200\/IMG_1608.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>You do know that every state in the United States now has some commercial wine production. Last June I happened to be traveling along I-94 in southwest Michigan and I came upon some wine outlets just off the freeway. We stopped first at a St. Julian wine outlet. The wines were as expected &#8211; thin, sweet and unappealing. But right next to them was another winery outlet from an outfit called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roundbarnwinery.com\/\">Round Barn Winery<\/a>. These folks from Baroda, MI do know their stuff. Now, I think some of the finest white wines in the country come from the Leelenau Penninsula of upper lower Michigan. But, red wines from Michigan? I actually found some palatable red wines from this place. They have a Merlot that is not too shabby at all. On the lower end is their &#8220;Vineyard Red&#8221;. I was eating a maple cheddar burger tonight and this wine went very nicely. It&#8217;s not a serious wine by any means but with a nice crisp acidity and a good cherry fruit this matched great with a cheeseburger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You do know that every state in the United States now has some commercial wine production. Last June I happened to be traveling along I-94 in southwest Michigan and I came upon some wine outlets just off the freeway. We stopped first at a St. Julian wine outlet. The wines were as expected &#8211; thin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,146],"tags":[11,12],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-america","category-red-blend","tag-michigan","tag-round-barn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}