{"id":53315,"date":"2025-05-01T09:32:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodlifevancouver.com\/staging\/2138\/?p=53315"},"modified":"2025-05-01T09:36:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:36:05","slug":"kelownas-ultimate-blind-tasting-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodlifevancouver.com\/staging\/2138\/kelownas-ultimate-blind-tasting-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelowna&#8217;s Ultimate Blind Tasting Challenge!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Good Wine Gal Brings Wine Wednesdays and Meets Thirsty Thursdays to Kelowna&#8217;s Lakehouse Cooking School<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"273\" data-end=\"438\"><strong data-start=\"273\" data-end=\"310\">Good Wine Gal, Barb Wild, DipWSET<\/strong> is back at <strong data-start=\"322\" data-end=\"354\">The Lakehouse Cooking School<\/strong> with two bold tasting series that pit <strong data-start=\"393\" data-end=\"406\">BC\u2019s best<\/strong> against the <strong data-start=\"419\" data-end=\"437\">world\u2019s finest<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"273\" data-end=\"438\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"53317\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/goodlifevancouver.com\/staging\/2138\/kelownas-ultimate-blind-tasting-challenge\/good-wine-gal-lakehouse\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/goodlifevancouver.com\/staging\/2138\/wp-content\/uploads\/Good-Wine-Gal-Lakehouse.jpg?fit=1100%2C786&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1100,786\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"good wine gal lakehouse\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/goodlifevancouver.com\/staging\/2138\/wp-content\/uploads\/Good-Wine-Gal-Lakehouse.jpg?fit=788%2C563&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-53317\" title=\"good wine gal lakehouse\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/goodlifevancouver.com\/staging\/2138\/wp-content\/uploads\/Good-Wine-Gal-Lakehouse.jpg?resize=768%2C549&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"good wine gal lakehouse\" width=\"768\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/goodlifevancouver.com\/staging\/2138\/wp-content\/uploads\/Good-Wine-Gal-Lakehouse.jpg?resize=768%2C549&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/goodlifevancouver.com\/staging\/2138\/wp-content\/uploads\/Good-Wine-Gal-Lakehouse.jpg?resize=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/goodlifevancouver.com\/staging\/2138\/wp-content\/uploads\/Good-Wine-Gal-Lakehouse.jpg?resize=1024%2C732&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/goodlifevancouver.com\/staging\/2138\/wp-content\/uploads\/Good-Wine-Gal-Lakehouse.jpg?resize=420%2C300&amp;ssl=1 420w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/goodlifevancouver.com\/staging\/2138\/wp-content\/uploads\/Good-Wine-Gal-Lakehouse.jpg?w=1100&amp;ssl=1 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr class=\"\" data-start=\"440\" data-end=\"443\">\n<h3 class=\"\" data-start=\"445\" data-end=\"484\">&#x1f347; <strong data-start=\"452\" data-end=\"484\">WINE WEDNESDAY: BC vs France<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"485\" data-end=\"549\"><em data-start=\"485\" data-end=\"549\">Can BC wines stand up to the classics? 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