{"id":56,"date":"2015-11-08T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beneaththecork.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2023-03-29T21:01:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T21:01:36","slug":"introducingbeneath-the-cork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beneaththecork.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/08\/introducingbeneath-the-cork\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing\u2026Beneath the Cork"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Beneath The Cork<\/em><\/strong>…finally there is a blog site dedicated to straightforward, fun, and sometimes even funny wine reviews in South Carolina’s Midlands. All without the flowery, eye-rolling wine-snob hyperbole.
\u201cIf it tastes like peach pie or has a nose like KFC coleslaw, that’s more than likely what we’re going write,\u201d says Publisher Dan Hanfland, a retired wine-industry veteran, chairman of the local American Wine Society Chapter, and creator of the blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With wine experience dating back to the mid-70s when the fledgling California wine industry was coming of age, Hanfland’s candid approach to reviewing and describing wines is a welcome breath of fresh air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRecently releases are sniffed, swirled, sloshed, and slurped by ‘The Crew’\u201d, adds Hanfland. \u201cThis cadre of six to eight tasters and reviewers is an eclectic and constantly-changing cross-section of folks from every boulevard, boardwalk, and back road of life, each with a unique set of wine tasting and evaluation skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWho knows, this week’s collection of brutally candid and sometimes downright hilarious comments might come from a restaurant owner, a lawyer, and a piano tuner. Next months, ‘Crew’ might be a chemist, a pastor, and a yoga instructor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLots of different and unique folks enjoy a lot of different and unique wines…all in unique and different price ranges. Everybody has a palate \u2013 some sophisticated, some pedestrian. And an opinion…lord knows, they ALL have an opinion!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWho’s to say any one is more or less valid than another? That’s why we select such a diverse array of folks to sit in on our tasting panels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Completely accessible and all together approachable, there is, finally, a real-people wine blog in the Midlands of South Carolina. Whether it’s red, white, or somewhere in-between, Beneath The Cork<\/em><\/strong> offers fresh, fun, and hype-free tasting notes and discussions without all the frou-frou cork-dork wine-ponce dialect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t miss a single issue of Beneath The Cork!<\/em><\/strong> We’re confident that it’s about to become your go-to guide to some of the best bottles and best buys out there! On the often over-crowded playing field of retail wine shelves in South Carolina’s Midlands, it’s nice to finally have some easy-to-understand, accurate, and candid buying advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s easy to have Beneath The Cork<\/em><\/strong> automatically delivered to your email inbox every time a new edition is published! Simply go to  http:\/\/www.beneaththecork.com<\/strong>, type your email address in the box, and click submit!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s no need to stay thirsty, my friends!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beneath The Cork…finally there is a blog site dedicated to straightforward, fun, and sometimes even funny wine reviews in South Carolina’s Midlands. All without the flowery, eye-rolling wine-snob hyperbole.\u201cIf it tastes like peach pie or has a nose like KFC … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beneaththecork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beneaththecork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beneaththecork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beneaththecork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beneaththecork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/beneaththecork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"http:\/\/beneaththecork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beneaththecork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beneaththecork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beneaththecork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}