{"id":8210,"date":"2021-08-09T16:26:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T23:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winebc.com\/industry\/?page_id=8210"},"modified":"2021-08-09T16:26:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T23:26:19","slug":"rhys-pender","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/winebc.com\/industry\/rhys-pender\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhys Pender"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7440 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/winebc.com\/industry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Rhys-headshot-Square.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/winebc.com\/industry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Rhys-headshot-Square.jpg 852w, https:\/\/winebc.com\/industry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Rhys-headshot-Square-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/winebc.com\/industry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Rhys-headshot-Square-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/winebc.com\/industry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Rhys-headshot-Square-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/winebc.com\/industry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Rhys-headshot-Square-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/winebc.com\/industry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Rhys-headshot-Square-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/winebc.com\/industry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Rhys-headshot-Square-705x705.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/>Rhys Pender<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Rhys is a Master of Wine who combines his time writing, judging, teaching, presenting, consulting and dirtying his boots at his 4 acre vineyard and winery \u2013 Little Farm Winery \u2013 in the Similkameen Valley of BC, Canada. He runs a wine school, Wine Plus+, and judges wine competitions nationally and internationally such as the Decanter World Wine Awards, TexSomm as well as the National Wine Awards of Canada for WineAlign. In 2018, Rhys\u2019s contribution to the industry was acknowledged as one of just five global nominees for the WSET Outstanding Alumni Award. To make sure he eats well he has also completed a Professional Culinary Diploma and has been named by Western Living magazine as one of the \u201cTop 40 Foodies Under 40\u201d in Western Canada. He is a regular contributor to publications such as SIP, Vitis, Macleans, Montecristo and Taste<\/p>\n<p>Twitter: @WinePlus<br \/>\nInstagram: @rhyspendermw<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhys Pender Rhys is a Master of Wine who combines his time writing, judging, teaching, presenting, consulting and dirtying his boots at his 4 acre vineyard and winery \u2013 Little&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-blank.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8210","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rhys Pender - Wine BC Industry<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/winebc.com\/industry\/rhys-pender\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rhys Pender - 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