{"id":3877,"date":"2013-02-21T21:36:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T21:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathycasey.com\/blog\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2013-02-21T21:36:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T21:36:40","slug":"vinums-monthly-cocktail-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/?p=3877","title":{"rendered":"Vinum&#8217;s Monthly Cocktail Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The beginning of 2013 marked the start of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vinumimporting.com\/\">Vinum Importing<\/a>\u2019s monthly cocktail competitions and for March, the theme is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anise\">anise<\/a>. Native to the Mediterranean and Southwest Asia, anise-flavored spirits have already made appearances in plenty of cocktails, but Vinum\u2019s competition challenges bartenders to put anise in the spotlight. If you&#8217;re a fan of anise then this is the event for you!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.worldspice.com\/uploads\/photo\/image\/69\/xbest_0063aniseseed.jpg,q1306624427.pagespeed.ic.oUqHPudzC6.jpg\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><br \/>\n(Photo Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldspice.com\/spices\/anise-seed\">World Spice Merchants<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The competition will take place at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vesselseattle.com\/\">Vessel<\/a> on March 4<sup>th<\/sup> at 6:30pm<\/strong>. The guest judges include Imbibe Magazine&#8217;s Jen Boelts, 5th generation distiller Matteo Meletti, and Cocktail Chronicles&#8217; Paul Clarke.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Vinum Cocktail Competitions and the schedule, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/vinumcocktailcompetition.com\/\">the competition website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beginning of 2013 marked the start of Vinum Importing\u2019s monthly cocktail competitions and for March, the theme is anise. Native to the Mediterranean and Southwest Asia, anise-flavored spirits have already made appearances in plenty of cocktails, but Vinum\u2019s competition challenges bartenders to put anise in the spotlight. If you&#8217;re a fan of anise then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11760],"tags":[1655,859,8711,8638,7,11855,877,7027,11856,8712,8713,293,11860,1012,2561,8714,2659,8715,54,11857,3974,8716,2436,1034,1415,8717,2570,8718],"class_list":{"0":"post-3877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-dishing-with-kathy-casey-blog","7":"tag-anise","8":"tag-cocktail","9":"tag-cocktail-chronicles","10":"tag-cocktail-competition","11":"tag-cocktails","13":"tag-competition","14":"tag-competitions","15":"tag-foodie-news","16":"tag-imbibe-magazine","17":"tag-jen-boelts","18":"tag-kathy-casey","19":"tag-lifestyle","20":"tag-lounge","21":"tag-march","22":"tag-matteo-meletti","23":"tag-mediterranean","24":"tag-paul-clarke","25":"tag-pike-place-market","26":"tag-recent","27":"tag-schedule","28":"tag-southwest-asia","29":"tag-spirit","30":"tag-spirits","31":"tag-vessel","32":"tag-vinum-importing","33":"tag-website","34":"tag-world-spice-merchants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}