{"id":244,"date":"2008-05-07T18:13:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T02:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/07\/the-grapes-behind-the-bubbly\/"},"modified":"2008-06-30T15:23:11","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T23:23:11","slug":"the-grapes-behind-the-bubbly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/07\/the-grapes-behind-the-bubbly\/","title":{"rendered":"The grapes behind the bubbly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much of our North American Sparkling features Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. This flight features one of each, in the full expression of their color.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iron Horse Sonoma County Green Valley Estate Bottled Blanc de Blancs 2001<\/strong><br \/>\nThis wine sports tart green apples and toasty notes. As in Champagne production, this is 100% Chardonnay. The wine is fermented in a combo of stainless and barrels and spends extended time en tirage. 13% $26.99 at Bottle Barn <a title=\"Iron Horse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ironhorsevineyards.com\" target=\"_blank\">Iron Horse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Schug Carneros Rouge de Noirs Brut 2003<\/strong><br \/>\nThis wine has the notes associated with earthy and gamey Pinot Noir, not a style to win over the class. !00% Pinot Noir. Winemaster Walter Schug. 12% $25.99 at Bottle Barn <a title=\"Schug\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schugwinery.com\" target=\"_blank\">Schug<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of our North American Sparkling features Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. This flight features one of each, in the full expression of their color. Iron Horse Sonoma County Green Valley Estate Bottled Blanc de Blancs 2001 This wine sports tart green apples and toasty notes. As in Champagne production, this is 100% Chardonnay. The wine [&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":[26,85,83,213,76,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-carneros","category-chardonnay","category-green-valley","category-pinot-noir","category-sonoma-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","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=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}