{"id":1779,"date":"2017-05-22T13:10:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T13:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2017-05-23T13:31:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T13:31:15","slug":"leesburg-vintner-thrives-despite-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1779","title":{"rendered":"Leesburg Vintner withstands competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1780\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1780\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1780\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/101-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/101-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/101-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/101-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/101-1200x898.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owner Mike Carroll in his shop, Leesburg Vintner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although Leesburg Vintner was closed Monday, owner Mike Carroll was working in his shop while a ribbon-cutting for Delirium Cafe was taking place across the street.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s going to be a game-changer,\u201d Carroll said as he peered through the blinds at the growing crowd outside the cafe, a franchisee of a popular Belgian beer company. \u201cIt\u2019s created a buzz unlike anything I\u2019ve seen since I\u2019ve been here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carroll has been selling bottled wines at the northwest corner of King and Loudoun streets in Leesburg for almost three decades. During that time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/leesburg-wine-seller-has-enjoyed-very-good-years\/2017\/05\/19\/30ea6dfe-3c8f-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?utm_term=.ab7ce7019391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he has withstood increasing competition from big box stores and local wineries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/leesburg-wine-seller-has-enjoyed-very-good-years\/2017\/05\/19\/30ea6dfe-3c8f-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?utm_term=.ab7ce7019391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em>, May 21, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Leesburg Vintner was closed Monday, owner Mike Carroll was working in his shop while a ribbon-cutting for Delirium Cafe was taking place across the street. \u201cI think it\u2019s going to be a game-changer,\u201d Carroll said as he peered through the blinds at the growing crowd outside the cafe, a franchisee of a popular Belgian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1779\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leesburg Vintner withstands competition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18,22,14,3],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-business","tag-downtown","tag-leesburg","tag-loudoun-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}