{"id":320,"date":"2013-05-20T23:26:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T23:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.w-anibal.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2013-05-20T23:26:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T23:26:59","slug":"320","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.w-anibal.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"MELGA\u00c7O EQUALS ALVARINHO AND FIGHT TO CUT THE VAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a day! 100+ wines from the DO D\u00e3o tasted blind at Viseu, \u00a0matching the <a href=\"www.cvrdao.pt\">D\u00e3o Primeurs 2012<\/a>. Will tell you more in coming posts. Then travel through Chaves, Ver\u00edn (check the precious road photo of its castle),<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.w-anibal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5591-e1369091895688.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-323\" alt=\"IMG_5591\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.w-anibal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5591-e1369091895688.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ourense, arriving at the most setentrional of all Portuguese Municipalities \u2013 Melga\u00e7o \u2013 cradle of Alvarinho unique wines. Diner with <strong>Pedro Soares<\/strong>\u00a0 from <a href=\"www.quintasdemelgaco.pt\">Quintas de Melga\u00e7o<\/a>\u00a0at <a href=\"www.adegasabino.com\">Adega Sabino<\/a>, next to the City Hall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.w-anibal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5593-e1369091734440.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-321\" alt=\"IMG_5593\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.w-anibal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5593-e1369091734440.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As usual another wine lover was found:\u00a0 <strong>Augusto Castro<\/strong>, the owner, my confrere of Alvarinho, was at his best, despite the complaints over the VAT on restaurant bills. Please, <strong>Minister<\/strong> <strong>Assun\u00e7\u00e3o Cristas<\/strong>, I need your support to cut the VAT immediately. I trust your good judgment. Please tell your fellow ministers that, according to Economic Historian <a href=\"en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carlo_M._Cipolla\">Carlo Cipolla<\/a>, a lose-lose venture is the ultimate definition for Stupidity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a day! 100+ wines from the DO D\u00e3o tasted blind at Viseu, \u00a0matching the D\u00e3o Primeurs 2012. Will tell you more in coming posts. Then travel through Chaves, Ver\u00edn (check the precious road photo of its castle), Ourense, arriving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.w-anibal.com\/?p=320\">Continuar a ler <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,5],"tags":[60,59,62,58,61,57,56],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sem-categoria","category-w-philosophy","category-wine-travel","tag-adega-sabino","tag-alvarinho","tag-assuncao-cristas","tag-melgaco","tag-quintas-de-melgaco","tag-verin","tag-wine-dao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.w-anibal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.w-anibal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.w-anibal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.w-anibal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.w-anibal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.w-anibal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/blog.w-anibal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.w-anibal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.w-anibal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.w-anibal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}