{"id":179,"date":"2007-05-31T15:53:11","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T19:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/31\/why-i-drink-ontario-wine\/"},"modified":"2007-05-31T15:53:11","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T19:53:11","slug":"why-i-drink-ontario-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/31\/why-i-drink-ontario-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Drink Ontario Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live in Ontario.  As much as I am able to choose, I drink Ontario wine, made from grapes grown in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>I live about an hour north of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peleeisland.com\/cgi-bin\/webc.cgi\/home.html\">Pelee Island<\/a>.  I live about three hours south-west of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grapegrowersofontario.com\/thevineyards\/niagara.html\">Niagara Escarpment<\/a>.  Between these two regions there are many wines to choose from.  I&#8217;m lucky about this.  If I lived somewhere else I might not have this many choices.<\/p>\n<p>I make this choice because I don&#8217;t want to contribute to the consumption of fossil fuels by drinking wine that&#8217;s traveled great distances. I also don&#8217;t want to drink wine that contains grapes from far away places.  Not only does this contribute to the environmental problem, but it also is a contributing factor in homogenizing the world&#8217;s wine.  If Ontario wine contains grapes from Italy, then the difference between Ontario and Italian wine blurs.  Vintners become transnational companies and diversity of flavours disappears.  Grape growers in Ontario have established <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grapegrowersofontario.com\/thecellar\/index.html\">the VQA designatio<\/a>n to make this easier for me:  only Ontario <\/p>\n<p>When I was in British Columbia for Northern Voice I had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sumacridge.com\/\">great BC wine<\/a>, and when I travel other places someday I will try their regional wine.  <\/p>\n<p>Small choices do make a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in Ontario. As much as I am able to choose, I drink Ontario wine, made from grapes grown in Ontario. I live about an hour north of Pelee Island. I live about three hours south-west of the Niagara Escarpment. Between these two regions there are many wines to choose from. I&#8217;m lucky about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,15,17,23,44,39,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}