{"id":185,"date":"2008-02-28T14:12:02","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T22:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/roaming-for-rhone\/"},"modified":"2008-10-29T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T18:59:00","slug":"roaming-for-rhone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/roaming-for-rhone\/","title":{"rendered":"Roaming for Rhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Le Clos du Caillou Cotes du Rhone Vielles Vignes Cuvee Unique 2005<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is a solid wine, balanced in medium weight with ripe fruits and structure. The ripeness is such that there are liquer-like black fruits. The alcohol is showing a bit in this chewy wine. Sourced from Chateauneuf-du-Pape, this wine is a blend of 90% old vine Grenache, 8% Syrah and 2% Mourvedre, aged in mature oak, large and small. Mis en bouteille at the Domaine Vacheron-Pouizin in Courthezon. 14.5% $17.99 at Bottle Barn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>White Raylin Mendocino Syrah 2006<\/strong><br \/>\nVery hard wine to locate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bridlewood Santa Ynez Estate Syrah 2004<\/strong><br \/>\nThis wine recently took at Gold at the SF Chronicle Wine Competition in January. It is truly an oak-bomb so if you like the woodshed, this wine&#8217;s for you. P&amp;B in Santa Ynez. 14.4% $40 at the winery  <a title=\"Bridlewood\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bridlewoodwinery.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bridlewood<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>M. Chapoutier Crozes-Hermitage Petite Ruche 2005<\/strong><br \/>\nBlack pepper galore in a structured package; the acidity adds a nice freshness. 100% Syrah. Mis a Tain. 13% $25.99 at Bottle Barn <a title=\"Chapoutier\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chapoutier.com\" target=\"_blank\">Chapoutier<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Clos du Caillou Cotes du Rhone Vielles Vignes Cuvee Unique 2005 This is a solid wine, balanced in medium weight with ripe fruits and structure. The ripeness is such that there are liquer-like black fruits. The alcohol is showing a bit in this chewy wine. Sourced from Chateauneuf-du-Pape, this wine is a blend of [&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":[26,74,35,11,118,72,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-crozes-hermitage","category-france","category-rhone","category-rhone-blend","category-santa-ynez-valley","category-syrah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","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=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}