{"id":249560,"date":"2015-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/vip-preview-of-vinavanti-urban-winery-in-hillcrest\/"},"modified":"2015-12-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T08:00:00","slug":"vip-preview-of-vinavanti-urban-winery-in-hillcrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/vip-preview-of-vinavanti-urban-winery-in-hillcrest\/","title":{"rendered":"VIP preview of Vinavanti Urban Winery in Hillcrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vinavantiurbanwinery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vinavanti Urban Winery<\/a> in Hillcrest held a VIP reception on Monday, Nov. 30, as a preview to its grand opening on Saturday, Dec. 5.<\/p>\n<p>The winery recently moved its wine-tasting room from North County to 1477 University Ave. on the east end of Hillcrest.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23637\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sduptownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/girlsweb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23637 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sduptownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/girlsweb.jpg\" alt=\"girlsweb\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/400;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Megan Gamwell of Hillcrest Business Association, Adriana Martinez of Councilmember Todd Gloria&#8217;s office, and Marisa Romero of the HBA (Photo by Vince Meehan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23638\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23638\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sduptownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ribbonweb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23638 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sduptownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ribbonweb.jpg\" alt=\"Clara Brinkmeier, Vinavanti director and co-owner, cutting the ribbon with Eric Van Drunen (Photo by Vince Meehan)\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/450;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clara Brinkmeier, Vinavanti director and co-owner, cutting the ribbon with Eric Van Drunen (Photo by Vince Meehan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re providing a San Diego winery experience in an urban setting \u2014 something most people aren\u2019t familiar with. And it\u2019s not just the wine! We have food, beer, and cocktails too! There\u2019s something for everyone,\u201d Eric Van Drunen, Vinavanti\u2019s winemaker and president, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Vinavanti boasts that it produces local wine at its purest and keeps things authentic, so it\u2019s no surprise the winery for its grand opening chose to team up with a nonprofit whose focus is local agriculture. San Diego Roots Sustainable Food Project is a nonprofit whose mission is to educate, cultivate and empower sustainable food communities throughout San Diego County. Project operators offer San Diegans hands-on opportunities to grow food, get dirty, and gain skills and knowledge at their 5-acre farm, Wild Willow Farm &amp; Education Center, in San Diego near the border with Tijuana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the perfect partnership, their ideas with agriculture align well with our winemaking philosophies,\u201d Van Drunen said.<\/p>\n<p>The grand opening will be celebrated from 11 a.m. \u2014 11 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5, and a portion of the wine proceeds from the day will be donated to San Diego Roots.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23635\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23635\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sduptownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/crewweb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23635 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sduptownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/crewweb-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"crewweb\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/300;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vinavanti&#8217;s Hannah Mykel and Cervantes Magna\u00f1a (Photo by Vince Meehan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23636\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23636\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sduptownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/crowdweb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23636 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sduptownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/crowdweb.jpg\" alt=\"crowdweb\" width=\"600\" height=\"455\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/455;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Foto por Vince Meehan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vinavanti Urban Winery in Hillcrest held a VIP reception on Monday, Nov. 30, as a preview to its grand opening on Saturday, Dec. 5. The winery recently moved its wine-tasting room from North County to 1477 University Ave. on the east end of Hillcrest.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":249561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"VIP preview of Vinavanti Urban Winery in Hillcrest","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}