{"id":18898,"date":"2014-05-21T18:08:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T22:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/?p=18898"},"modified":"2014-05-21T18:18:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T22:18:20","slug":"wine-waiters-servers-sommeliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wine-waiters-servers-sommeliers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine Review of the Week: National Waiter&#8217;s Day Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wine-waiters-servers-sommeliers\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18932\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sommelier-opening-bottle.jpg\" alt=\"Opening wine\" width=\"425\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sommelier-opening-bottle.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sommelier-opening-bottle-160x106.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sommelier-opening-bottle-350x232.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sommelier-opening-bottle-125x82.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a>Steve Cranny, a graduate of the Canadian Association of Professional Sommeliers (CAPS) program, has selected our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/category\/best-wines\/wine-review-of-the-week\/\"><strong>Wine Review of the Week<\/strong><\/a> to celebrate National Waiter&#8217;s Day, May 21.<\/p>\n<p>A toast to all those hard-working heroes of the restaurant industry! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nationalwaitersday?src=hash\"><strong>#NationalWaitersDay<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Steve wine review and rating:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-18493\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/quotation-marks-left-160x128.png\" alt=\"quotation-marks-left\" width=\"82\" height=\"66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/quotation-marks-left-160x128.png 160w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/quotation-marks-left-350x280.png 350w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/quotation-marks-left-125x100.png 125w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/quotation-marks-left.png 492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 82px) 100vw, 82px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Until I became involved in the Industry I had no idea how hard service professionals work to make other people happy. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18930\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Steve-Cranny.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Cranny\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Steve-Cranny.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Steve-Cranny-35x35.jpg 35w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Steve-Cranny-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So in honour of National Waiter&#8217;s Day and all of those great service people I would like to recommend a wine that I have enjoyed across several vintages.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/wine-reviews\/caparzo-brunello-di-montalcino-2005-2005\/203333\"><strong>Caparzo Brunello di Montalcino<\/strong><\/a> is a wonderful dark ruby wine that hits the palate like velvet. The last bottle that I had the opportunity to drink was a 2005.<\/p>\n<p>It was a medium-bodied wine that tasted of dark cherries, blackberry, herbs and licorice. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-18494\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/quotation-marks-right-160x128.png\" alt=\"quotation-marks-right\" width=\"84\" height=\"67\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/quotation-marks-right-160x128.png 160w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/quotation-marks-right-350x280.png 350w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/quotation-marks-right-125x100.png 125w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/quotation-marks-right.png 492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 84px) 100vw, 84px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This wonderful wine partnered well with pasta covered with meat sauce and topped with Pecorino cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Rating: 91 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Cranny, a graduate of the Canadian Association of Professional Sommeliers (CAPS) program, has selected our Wine Review of the Week to celebrate National Waiter&#8217;s Day, May 21. A toast to all those hard-working heroes of the restaurant industry! #NationalWaitersDay Here&#8217;s Steve wine review and rating: Until I became involved in the Industry I had no idea how hard service professionals work to make other people happy. So in honour of National Waiter&#8217;s Day and all of those great service people I would like to recommend a wine that I have enjoyed across several vintages. The Caparzo Brunello di Montalcino [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[441,439,440,19,20,443,278,55,442,265,26,359,402,358,266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-waiters-day-events","category-national-waiters-day","category-national-waiters-day-wine","category-restaurant-wine-lists","category-best-restaurants","category-servers","category-sommelier-course","category-sommeliers-restaurants","category-waiters-and-waitresses","category-wine-of-the-week","category-wine-picks","category-wine-ratings","category-wine-review-of-the-week","category-wine-reviews","category-wines-of-the-week"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18898"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18935,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18898\/revisions\/18935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}