{"id":20,"date":"2007-09-13T08:34:34","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T16:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/13\/head-to-head-merlot\/"},"modified":"2007-09-13T08:51:22","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T16:51:22","slug":"head-to-head-merlot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/13\/head-to-head-merlot\/","title":{"rendered":"Head to head Merlot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pahlmeyer Napa Valley Merlot 2004<\/strong><br \/>\nThis Merlot smells of blueberries.  In the mouth the fruit is quite dense, there&#8217; a little warmth, moderate acidity, light body and a long finish.  13% Cabernet Sauvignon and 19 months aging in French oak, yet there&#8217;s an elegance.  It&#8217;s a pleasure to taste an expensive Merlot that isn&#8217;t drowning in new oak $90 at the winery<a href=\"http:\/\/pahlmeyer.com\"> www.pahlmeyer.om<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chateau de Valandraud St. Emilion Grand Cru Virgine de Valandraud 2000<\/strong><br \/>\nFull of toasty oak like the 03 and 04 Smith Haut Lafitte on the other side of Bordeaux.  In the mouth this wine is still a baby; it&#8217;s quite tannic with moderate acidity and lots of extract.    There&#8217;s some brett in the background that provides an added complexity.  Thunevin says this is not a second wine as some claim but rather a distinct wine that is treated to new oak and drawn from vines with an average of 30 years age of 70% Merlot and 30% Cab Franc $90 retail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thunevin.com\" target=\"_blank\">thunevin.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pahlmeyer Napa Valley Merlot 2004 This Merlot smells of blueberries. In the mouth the fruit is quite dense, there&#8217; a little warmth, moderate acidity, light body and a long finish. 13% Cabernet Sauvignon and 19 months aging in French oak, yet there&#8217;s an elegance. It&#8217;s a pleasure to taste an expensive Merlot that isn&#8217;t drowning [&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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merlot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","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=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}