{"id":1023,"date":"2012-12-23T19:20:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T23:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2012-12-23T19:20:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T23:20:29","slug":"12-days-of-xmas-giveaway-day-12-win-passport-from-santa-cruz-mountains-winegrowers-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=1023","title":{"rendered":"12 Days of Xmas Giveaway Day 12: Win passport from Santa Cruz Mountains Winegrowers Association"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hunter Hill Vineyard & Winery, a participant in SCMWA’s Passport program<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s the final day — day 12 of Santa Cruz Restaurant Examiner\/Santa Cruz Foodie\u2019s \u201c12 Days of Christmas Giveaway.\u201d Today\u2019s prize is very valuable: the Santa Cruz Mountains Winegrowers Association (SCMWA<\/a>) has generously donated TWO passports (a $90 value)! See end of article for how to enter today\u2019s contest.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re unfamiliar with SCMWA\u2019s Passport program, here are the details: SCMWA hosts this event four times a year — the third Saturday of January, April, July, and November. About 50 wineries participate, and most wineries are open from 11 a.m. \u2013 5 p.m. The next Passport Day is January 19, 2013.<\/p>\n

Passport is an opportunity to meet the winemakers of the area, from Half Moon Bay to Gilroy and in between. You can see where and how wine is produced, and — at selected wineries — try new releases and special barrel samples. Passports cost $45 and that includes one visit (with waived tasting fee) to each of the participating wineries. When you visit a winery, the passport gets stamped. It doesn\u2019t expire on a certain date, so you can take your time to visit all of them over the course of a few months, a year, or longer. You can choose to do this during Passport weekends, or any other time. For example, instead of a Passport day, you can just visit a winery on another day it\u2019s open, and have the Passport stamped in exchange for a waived tasting fee.<\/p>\n

If you want to buy a passport as a holiday gift or a gift to yourself, you can do so online<\/a>. Passports are also available to purchase at any participating winery on Passport Day, while supplies last.<\/p>\n

The 50-plus wineries range from Ahlgren to Zayante, and each is unique. “The trail is half the experience! There are many attributes to the wide variety of this Premier Mountain appellation,” says SCMWA Operations Manager Shannon Flynn. “The intimate feel you get from these wineries is unlike other regions.\u201d Wine historian Charles Sullivan says, \u201cGrape for grape, bottle for bottle, the Santa Cruz Mountains district is the finest winegrowing area in the Western hemisphere.\u201d<\/p>\n

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THE CONTEST: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Reminder — during the entire \u201c12 Days of Christmas\u201d promotion, <\/em>each person can only win one prize. <\/em><\/p>\n

DAY 12 PRIZE \u2013 The winner will receive two Passports from SCMWA.<\/p>\n

To enter, email your name to tfatemiwalker@yahoo.com<\/a> and include the words \u201cSanta Cruz wine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Or post a comment to this article on my Facebook page<\/a>, and include the phrase \u201cSanta Cruz wine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Either way, the entry deadline is Mon. Dec. 24 at 5 p.m.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The drawing will take place that evening; the winner will be notified via email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s the final day — day 12 of Santa Cruz Restaurant Examiner\/Santa Cruz Foodie\u2019s \u201c12 Days of Christmas Giveaway.\u201d Today\u2019s prize is very valuable: the Santa Cruz Mountains Winegrowers Association (SCMWA) has generously donated TWO passports (a $90 value)! See … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[38,393,371,7,417,416,1121],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine","tag-events-2","tag-giveaway","tag-holidays-2012","tag-santa-cruz","tag-santa-cruz-mountains-winegrowers-association","tag-santa-cruz-wine","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}