{"id":209,"date":"2006-11-14T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=209"},"modified":"2006-11-14T22:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T21:54:00","slug":"georgian-wine-in-latvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/georgian-wine-in-latvia\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgian wine in Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twid.bibulus.org\/uploaded_images\/bulggeorg-763120.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twid.bibulus.org\/uploaded_images\/bulggeorg-758845.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twid.bibulus.org\/uploaded_images\/wineshelf-707592.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twid.bibulus.org\/uploaded_images\/wineshelf-702755.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>In Britain and Denmark, it&#8217;s almost impossible to get hold of Georgian wine.  Compare this with the situation in any Latvian supermarket &ndash; see for instance the photo on the left (<i>Gruzija<\/i> is Latvian for &#8216;Georgia&#8217;).<\/p>\n<p>What surprised me even more was that they also sold cheap Bulgarian copies of Georgian wines &ndash; see the photo on the right (you might need to click on it to see a larger version).<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I brought several bottles back to Glasgow.  Strangely enough, however, Phyllis doesn&#8217;t quite seem to share my love for kindzmarauli&#8230;  We gave her parents a bottle, though, so it will be interesting to see their reactions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Britain and Denmark, it&#8217;s almost impossible to get hold of Georgian wine. Compare this with the situation in any Latvian supermarket &ndash; see for instance the photo on the left (Gruzija is Latvian for &#8216;Georgia&#8217;). What surprised me even more was that they also sold cheap Bulgarian copies of Georgian wines &ndash; see the photo on the right (you might need to click on it to see a larger version). Needless to say, I brought several bottles back to Glasgow. Strangely enough, however, Phyllis doesn&#8217;t quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,106,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-fooddrink","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}