{"id":25685,"date":"2014-05-10T13:17:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T18:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25685"},"modified":"2014-05-10T13:17:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T18:17:54","slug":"former-head-of-the-lcbo-at-the-ontario-wine-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/05\/10\/former-head-of-the-lcbo-at-the-ontario-wine-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Former head of the LCBO at the Ontario Wine Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.ca\/2014\/05\/report-from-ontario-wine-awards-may-09.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Pinkus<\/a> attended last night&#8217;s award ceremony and found the star of the proceedings was the master of ceremonies, former LCBO head Andy Brandt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 20th Annual Ontario Wine Awards were held Friday night at the Queen&#8217;s Landing Inn in Niagara-on-the-Lake hosted by former head of the LCBO Andy Brandt; who had to be one of the unintentionally funny MC I\u2019ve ever experienced. Between the butchering of words (Pinot &#8220;Griss&#8221;, Cabernet &#8220;Frank&#8221;, &#8220;Sara&#8221; for Syrah, &#8220;Ca-lom-us&#8221; for Calamus and &#8220;Toss-e&#8221; for Tawse) and the total omission of names he did not want to pronounce like Musque and Viognier during the presentation &mdash; he seemed uncomfortable giving out the awards, but was good at puns and for a few stories. All-in-all Brandt was a train-wreck, but at least you knew the room was listening for his next <em>faux-pas<\/em> and he was the talk of the room over beers and desserts at the after-party (the most talked about host I can remember). One person commented to me, &#8220;He&#8217;s my favourite MC at [The Ontario Wine Awards] ever, I just never knew what was going to come out of his mouth from one moment to the next. Obviously pronunciation has gone out the window tonight, it&#8217;s a free-for-all.&#8221; Others could not believe that the once head of the LCBO could not pronounce grape varieties correctly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Pinkus attended last night&#8217;s award ceremony and found the star of the proceedings was the master of ceremonies, former LCBO head Andy Brandt: The 20th Annual Ontario Wine Awards were held Friday night at the Queen&#8217;s Landing Inn in Niagara-on-the-Lake hosted by former head of the LCBO Andy Brandt; who had to be one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[831,6,57,131],"tags":[395,87],"class_list":["post-25685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cancon","category-humour","category-wine","tag-lcbo","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6Gh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25686,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25685\/revisions\/25686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}