{"id":288,"date":"2008-01-26T21:02:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T05:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=288"},"modified":"2008-01-26T21:10:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T05:10:26","slug":"skateboarding-pinot-noir-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarding Pinot Noir Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ryan Zepaltas<\/strong> is a 30-year-old <strong>skateboarder<\/strong> who is making tasty Pinots in Sonoma, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/foodandwine\/ci_8053126?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">Contra Costa Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He bought his first fruit in 2004. It was Syrah, from <strong>Gary Franscioni<\/strong> and his famed <strong>Rosella&#8217;s Vineyard<\/strong> in the Santa Lucia Highlands. Zepaltas says he was scared to ask him. Franscioni was wondering why he hadn&#8217;t asked sooner. With the prized grapes, Zepaltas made 40 cases of viscous and velvety chocolate-covered Syrah. He didn&#8217;t intend to release it. It just sort of happened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After all, wine is just art that gets you buzzed, right? Check it out for yourself at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zepaltaswines.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zepaltaswinse.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/foodandwine\/ci_8053126?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">Contra Costa Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Zepaltas is a 30-year-old skateboarder who is making tasty Pinots in Sonoma, according to a story in the Contra Costa Times. He bought his first fruit in 2004. It was Syrah, from Gary Franscioni and his famed Rosella&#8217;s Vineyard in the Santa Lucia Highlands. Zepaltas says he was scared to ask him. Franscioni was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}