{"id":28245,"date":"2014-05-27T09:24:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T14:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=28245"},"modified":"2014-05-27T09:24:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T14:24:05","slug":"congress-2014-visitors-are-invited-to-taste-ontario-wines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/05\/congress-2014-visitors-are-invited-to-taste-ontario-wines\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress 2014 visitors are invited to taste Ontario wines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28246\" title=\"wine2\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/wine2.jpg\" alt=\"wine2\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Delegates attending Congress 2014 will have the opportunity to taste some of Ontario&#8217;s top wine at the <a href=\"http:\/\/congress2014.ca\/program\/events\/sipping-ontario-wines-stars-0\" target=\"_blank\">Sipping Ontario wine with the stars seminar<\/a>.\u00a0The event&#8217;s second session will take place Wednesday, May 28 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Sankey Chamber and is organized by Brock&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/ccovi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute<\/a> (CCOVI).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The session will feature seven award-winning wines made right here in Ontario by Brock University alumni, in a fun and light-hearted atmosphere&#8221; says Barb Tatarnic, manager of outreach services at CCOVI.<\/p>\n<p>Participants will sip and learn while guessing what movies famous film clips featuring wine are from.  Wine educator Linda Bramble will facilitate the session and answer any questions in a relaxed, informal environment.\u00a0Registration for the event is done at the door and is reserved for the first 50 participants. A fee of $20 (cash only) will be charged to cover the cost of the wine. The event is part of the<a href=\"http:\/\/congress2014.ca\/program\/brock-programming-congress-plus\" target=\"_blank\"> Congress Plus<\/a> program, which highlight&#8217;s some of Brock&#8217;s academic and cultural programs.<\/p>\n<p>For Congress attendees looking to visit local wineries, daily tours are available to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winerytoursofniagara.com\/properties\/winery\/property_units\/view\/14\/\" target=\"_blank\">Niagara-on-the-Lake<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winerytoursofniagara.com\/properties\/winery\/property_units\/view\/17\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twenty Valley and Beamsville Bench<\/a> through Winery Tours of Niagara.  The tours highlight wineries where alumni of Brock&#8217;s Oenology and Viticulture degree program work as well as wineries that partner with Brock on research projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delegates attending Congress 2014 will have the opportunity to taste some of Ontario&#8217;s top wine at the Sipping Ontario wine with the stars seminar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[61,1050,1930,855,1935,1934,550,1936],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28250,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28245\/revisions\/28250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}