{"id":1097,"date":"2008-10-18T14:43:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T22:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2008-10-23T10:49:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T18:49:36","slug":"starring-zin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/18\/starring-zin\/","title":{"rendered":"Starring Zin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alexander Valley Vineyards, Dry Creek Valley, Redemption Zin, Zinfandel 2006 <\/strong>A moderate amount of jammy fruit and black pepper drive the nose while the palate is gripping, light-bodied and a little warm. P&amp;B in Healdsburg 14.5% $18.99 at Bottle Barn <a title=\"AVWine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avwine.com\" target=\"_blank\">AVWine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert Rue, Russian River Valley, Wood Road, Reserve, Zinfandel 2006 <\/strong>The fruit is lovingly sweet and liquer-like as it comes from the glass. In the mouth, the fruit leads with the structure of the Russian River to frame it. Sourced from Bob Rue&#8217;s centurions V&amp;B in Sebastopol 14.9% $28.99 at Bottle Barn and $29.99 at Traverso&#8217;s <a title=\"Robert Rue\" href=\"http:\/\/www.robertruevineyard.com\" target=\"_blank\">RR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mazzocco, Dry Creek Valley, Maple, Zinfandel 2006 <\/strong>The nose sports Port-like sweetness and a little black pepper. The mouth makes you think of liquid candy. The wine was aged in French oak for 18 months. Proprietors Ken and Diane Wilson, Winemaker Antoine Favero P&amp;B in Healdsburg 15.8% $34.99 at Bottle Barn <a title=\"Mazzocco\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mazzocco.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mazzocco<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Valley Vineyards, Dry Creek Valley, Redemption Zin, Zinfandel 2006 A moderate amount of jammy fruit and black pepper drive the nose while the palate is gripping, light-bodied and a little warm. P&amp;B in Healdsburg 14.5% $18.99 at Bottle Barn AVWine Robert Rue, Russian River Valley, Wood Road, Reserve, Zinfandel 2006 The fruit is lovingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,24,27,25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-dry-creek-valley","category-russian-river-valley","category-sonoma-county","category-zinfandel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}