{"id":213,"date":"2008-04-22T16:18:04","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T00:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/sauternes-on-the-cheap\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T16:18:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T00:18:04","slug":"sauternes-on-the-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/sauternes-on-the-cheap\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauternes on the cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chateau Gravas Sauternes 2004<\/strong><br \/>\nThis wine hasn&#8217;t been a show stopper but it isn&#8217;t bad. I mean this in the best way possible. Sauternes from the heavyweight producers has become prohibitively expensive for many. The Gravas offers a glimpse of what Sauternes tastes like, albeit in a light-bodied, thinner expression. 90% Semillon and 10% Sauvignon Blanc from 60 year old vines. The harvest is conducted in successive tries to capture the fruit as desired. The wine is aged in French and American oak. Recoltant a Barsac et mis en bouteille a Barsac 13.5% $11.99 375 ml at Bottle Barn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chateau Gravas Sauternes 2004 This wine hasn&#8217;t been a show stopper but it isn&#8217;t bad. I mean this in the best way possible. Sauternes from the heavyweight producers has become prohibitively expensive for many. The Gravas offers a glimpse of what Sauternes tastes like, albeit in a light-bodied, thinner expression. 90% Semillon and 10% Sauvignon [&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":[35,105,106,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-sauternes","category-sauvignon-blanc","category-semillon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","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=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}