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In the Wine Light<\/a> is one year with COVID. \u00a0On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization<\/a> officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. \u00a0Stay at home orders soon followed including ours here in North Carolina<\/a> on March 17, 2020. \u00a0Life changed drastically overnight.<\/p>\n From March 18 – May 22, 2020, tasting rooms in North Carolina were closed to onsite consumption. \u00a0Curbside pickup and online sales were still allowed, but visiting a tasting room or having wine on a patio at a vineyard or winery was not. \u00a0Finally, a new executive order<\/a> came and on May 23, 2020, onsite consumption was allowed once again but with new guidelines.<\/p>\n Under this new world, businesses adapted. \u00a0The wine industry in North Carolina did too, and for the most part, it thrived. \u00a0Some did struggle, but all in and all things weren’t as bad as they could have been.<\/p>\n It’s been a trying year for all of us, but there have been a few positives. \u00a0We want to highlight a few things we hope will continue in the wine world after things get back to normal:<\/p>\n And there are a few things we won’t miss when things return to normal. \u00a0These include:<\/p>\n Practice the 3 Ws!<\/p><\/div>\n Let’s all continue to do our part to help beat this virus. \u00a0Practice your three Ws. \u00a0Wear. \u00a0Wash. \u00a0Wait. \u00a0And when it’s your turn, get your shot! \u00a0You can find more information at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Stay safe!\u00a0<\/p>\n #InTheWineLight #OneYearWithCOVID #NCWine<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326],"tags":[355,328],"class_list":["post-10266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-wine-light","tag-covid-19","tag-in-the-wine-light","has-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10274,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions\/10274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Closed](\"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-2.29.50-PM-300x196.png\")
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