{"id":12982,"date":"2014-12-02T12:49:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T18:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=12982"},"modified":"2014-12-02T12:52:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T18:52:24","slug":"so-do-winemakers-ever-become-soms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/so-do-winemakers-ever-become-soms\/","title":{"rendered":"So do winemakers ever become <em>soms<\/em>?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Daniels <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cicerone_org\/status\/539820668976922624\">announced this morning<\/a> that Patrick Rue and James Watt passed two rigorous days of testing to become <a href=\"http:\/\/cicerone.org\/content\/master-cicerone\">Master Cicerones.<\/a> They are both brewers by trade &#151; Rue is founder of The Bruery in California and Watt co-founder of Brew Dog in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>This led to to wonder if winemakers seek similar certification &#151; either as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mastersommeliers.org\/pages.aspx\/about-cms-overview\">Master Sommelier<\/a> or a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mastersofwine.org\/\">Master of Wine.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And what does it reveal about beer and\/or wine whether they do or they do not?<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Not necessarily related but almost seems like it since this discussion was just last week: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.timesunion.com\/beer\/what-do-beer-writers-think-of-beer-certifications\/3225\/\">What do beer writers think of beer certifications?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Daniels announced this morning that Patrick Rue and James Watt passed two rigorous days of testing to become Master Cicerones. They are both brewers by trade &#151; Rue is founder of The Bruery in California and Watt co-founder of Brew Dog in Scotland. This led to to wonder if winemakers seek similar certification &#151; &#8230; <a title=\"So do winemakers ever become soms?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/so-do-winemakers-ever-become-soms\/\" aria-label=\"More on So do winemakers ever become soms?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer-wine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3no","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12985,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12982\/revisions\/12985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}