{"id":13704,"date":"2013-03-26T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vinesleuth.com\/uncorked\/?p=5782"},"modified":"2013-03-26T09:00:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T14:00:32","slug":"rodney-strong-wine-blending-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/rodney-strong-wine-blending-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodney Strong Wine Blending Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Team Synergy\u00a0took top honors last week when bloggers became winemakers and competed for bragging rights to the best Meritage blend as VineSleuth and Rodney Strong Vineyards<\/a> hosted #WineTime at the Hotel Zaza in Dallas.<\/p>\n

Team Petite Hashtag took second place and shared this response on Instagram:
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\nThe competition was fierce with tweets circulating like these:<\/p>\n

Listening to @robertlarson<\/a> and getting ready to dominate the wine blending competition on team @savings<\/a> #blissdom<\/a> twitter.com\/HappyHousewife\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Toni Anderson (@HappyHousewife) March 21, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

@dallaswinechick<\/a> oh yeah we are;)<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jana | Merlot Mommy (@jspd) March 21, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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There were some less competitive ones, too like this one:<\/p>\n

Mixing it up pre #blissdom<\/a> #winetime<\/a> @ Hotel ZaZa instagr.am\/p\/XGhPzkkuJW\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Molly Thornberg (@DigitalMolly) March 21, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For those bloggers in town for Blissdom<\/a> (a blogging conference that began the next day at the Gaylord Texan), the event started on the shuttle bus with\u00a0J Cuv\u00e9e 20 Brut NV<\/a> bubbles from Sonoma County.<\/p>\n

At the Hotel Zaza in uptown Dallas<\/a>, they met with the local bloggers and faced a room of tables covered in\u00a0what looked like laboratory gear: pipettes, graduated cylinders, lots of glassware, and, of course\u00a0bottles of single variety wines for blending.<\/p>\n

Here’s what one blogger had to say:<\/p>\n

Science experiment or wine blending? twitpic.com\/cd1go6<\/a> #winetime<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 dallaswinechick (@dallaswinechick) March 21, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Robert Larsen, Rodney Strong’s Marketing director, shared a bit about the winery’s vineyards and other things that make Rodney Strong’s wines distinctive, and then guided the bloggers through a tasting of each of the varieties they might consider using in their blends.<\/p>\n

Next Justin Seidenfeld, winemaker for Rodney Strong, shared how the blends are determined for Rodney Strong’s Meritage blend, Symmetry. He also shared a bit about winemaking in general and how the Rodney Strong team makes the decisions to grow, harvest and blend their acclaimed wines.<\/p>\n

After that, the bloggers were instructed to determine a team name and then get to work creating their own blends, tasting as they needed along the way. Justin determined the winner and then, after sashes were passed out and photos taken, the group moved on to the Dragon’s Den at the Zaza to enjoy more Rodney Strong wines and light bites.<\/p>\n

The Teams<\/h2>\n

Cork Dorks<\/h3>\n

Krista Gray-Donald (Life in the Hutch<\/a>),\u00a0 Melanie Ofenloch (DallasWineChick.com<\/a>), Jana Seitzer (Merlot Mommy<\/a>), Krista House \u00a0(The Tech Mom<\/a>), and Anna Epp (Life is Good…At the Beach<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Winey Witches<\/h3>\n

Betsy Mitchell (The Dallas Socials<\/a>), Molly Thornberg (Digital Mom Blog<\/a>), Autumn Reo (Mama Challenge<\/a>), JJ Gross, and Holly Bator<\/p>\n

\"winey-witches-collage\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Petite Hashtag<\/h3>\n

Diane Eyles,\u00a0Trista Perot (MommyUpgrade.com<\/a>),\u00a0Holly Homer (June Cleaver Nirvana<\/a>),\u00a0Lea Ann Stundins (Mommy’s Wish List<\/a>),\u00a0and\u00a0Amy Locurto (Living Locurto<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"petit-hashtag-collage\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Synergy<\/h3>\n

Jason Walker, Sara Dunham, and Nina Semaun from\u00a0Savings.com<\/a>\u00a0and Toni Anderson of the\u00a0Happy Housewife<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Team Synergy’s Winning Blend<\/h3>\n

50% Cabernet Franc, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon and 20% Malbec<\/p>\n

Thanks, Robert, Justin, Kristin Hamlin and\u00a0Rodney Strong Vineyards<\/a>, for partnering with VineSleuth on this event! And thanks to all the bloggers who joined us. \u00a0We had a blast learning, blending, toasting, tasting and just hanging out with all of you!<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Team Synergy\u00a0took top honors last week when bloggers became winemakers and competed for bragging rights to the best Meritage blend as VineSleuth and Rodney Strong Vineyards hosted #WineTime at the Hotel Zaza in Dallas. Team Petite Hashtag took second place and shared this response on Instagram: The competition was fierce with tweets circulating like these: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":5787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[623,624],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mtb-archive","category-wine-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}