{"id":16079,"date":"2016-02-22T14:33:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T20:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=16079"},"modified":"2016-02-22T15:17:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T21:17:52","slug":"meet-dave-phinney-of-orin-swift-cellars-rodeo-houston-grand-champion-winemaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/meet-dave-phinney-of-orin-swift-cellars-rodeo-houston-grand-champion-winemaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Dave Phinney of Orin Swift Cellars- RODEO Houston Grand Champion Winemaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16080\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/image003.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Phinney in Houston\" width=\"461\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/image003.jpg 461w, http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/image003-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Are you in Houston and a little jealous watching your friends&#8217; Facebook pics from last night&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodeohouston.com\/Events\/RodeoUncorked.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Rodeo Uncorked<\/a> event? Or were you there and need a little more rodeo wine in your life?<\/p>\n<p>Well, you are in luck!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave Phinney of Orin Swift Cellars will be in Houston at the Heights Kroger store tomorrow<\/strong>, Tuesday, February 23, from 2- 5 pm, ready to sign bottles and talk wine. (If you haven&#8217;t shopped that Kroger for wine, get ready&#8211; it&#8217;s a pretty amazing selection!)<\/p>\n<p>Phinney&nbsp;is in town to accept the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo\u2019s&nbsp;<b><i>\u201cGrand Champion and Best of Show<\/i><\/b>\u201d Wine Competition award for his <strong>Mercury Head Cabernet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I have had the honor of serving as a Houston Livestock Show &amp; Rodeo wine judge for the past 3 years through my startup, VineSleuth\/ Wine4.Me, and I can tell you this year was a very stiff competition&#8211; so many of the wines were outstanding, so we are definitely talking good juice.<\/p>\n<p>Mark your calendar and swing by to meet Dave Phinney, snap a selfie with a wine-star, and pick up a bottle to get signed for that next special night.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN:<\/strong> Tuesday, February 23, 2-5 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE:<\/strong> Kroger in the Heights: 1035 North Shepard Dr.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you in Houston and a little jealous watching your friends&#8217; Facebook pics from last night&#8217;s Rodeo Uncorked event? Or were you there and need a little more rodeo wine in your life? Well, you are in luck! Dave Phinney of Orin Swift Cellars will be in Houston at the Heights Kroger store tomorrow, Tuesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,632],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-houston-moms","category-houston-wine-scene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16082,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16079\/revisions\/16082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}