{"id":946,"date":"2010-02-24T15:24:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T22:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=946"},"modified":"2010-03-03T16:14:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T23:14:20","slug":"wine-tasting-weekend-in-the-yarra-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=946","title":{"rendered":"Wine tasting weekend in the Yarra Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s looking like we might stay in Melbourne for a couple of months, so in between job interviews we decided to visit the Yarra Valley.  We rented a little cottage in the heart of the valley for a weekend away from the city life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_949\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3505.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-949\" class=\"size-full wp-image-949 \" title=\"IMG_3505\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3505.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3505.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3505-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our cute little cottage<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_950\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3506.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-950\" class=\"size-full wp-image-950 \" title=\"IMG_3506\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3506.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3506.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3506-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The local cows just off the patio<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We visited about five different wineries including Domain Chandon, which is most know for its sparking wine, including Dom Perignon.\u00c2\u00a0 We were able to take a tour of the winery and learn how they make those bubbles in the wine. We also got to enjoy the wine country food including some yummy Italian food at De Bortoli Winery and a muscato sorbet at Innocent Bystandard Winery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_952\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3514.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-952\" class=\"size-full wp-image-952 \" title=\"IMG_3514\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3514.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3514.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3514-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wine going through its second fermentation to make those bubbles<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_951\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-951\" class=\"size-full wp-image-951 \" title=\"IMG_3507\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3507.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3507.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3507-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View over the Yarra Valley to the Dandenong Ranges<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_953\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3517.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-953\" class=\"size-full wp-image-953 \" title=\"IMG_3517\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3517.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3517.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3517-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This guy wanted to go wine tasting as well<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When we got back into Melbourne to return our car, we were glad to get ride of our rental car because driving in the city is very confusing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_954\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3519.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-954\" class=\"size-full wp-image-954 \" title=\"IMG_3519\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3519.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3519.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_3519-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What is that suppose to mean?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s looking like we might stay in Melbourne for a couple of months, so in between job interviews we decided to visit the Yarra Valley. We rented a little cottage in the heart of the valley for a weekend away from the city life. We visited about five different wineries including Domain Chandon, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,55],"tags":[96,53],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-victoria-australia","tag-australia","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}