{"id":2486,"date":"2009-04-14T19:46:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T03:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2009-04-14T19:46:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T03:46:54","slug":"chateau-gravas-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/14\/chateau-gravas-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Chateau Gravas 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chateau Gravas, Sauternes 2005 <\/strong>The nose features honey, flowers and minerality with an appropriate amount of volatility.\u00a0 In the mouth, the honey-essence and caramel are there in a light-bodied format with a touch of spiritous character.<\/p>\n<p>Previously I wrote: 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.<\/p>\n<p>The grapes are 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% up $6 for the previous &#8217;04 to $17.99 for a 375 ml at Bottle Barn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chateau Gravas, Sauternes 2005 The nose features honey, flowers and minerality with an appropriate amount of volatility.\u00a0 In the mouth, the honey-essence and caramel are there in a light-bodied format with a touch of spiritous character. Previously I wrote: This wine hasn&#8217;t been a show stopper but it isn&#8217;t bad. I mean this in the [&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":[99,35,22,105,106,107,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bordeaux","category-france","category-late-harvest-white","category-sauternes","category-sauvignon-blanc","category-semillon","category-white-dessert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486","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=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}