{"id":2746,"date":"2009-05-01T18:27:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T02:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2009-05-01T18:27:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T02:27:53","slug":"bella-syrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/01\/bella-syrah\/","title":{"rendered":"Bella Syrah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bella, Alexander Valley, Big River Ranch, Syrah 2005 <\/strong>There&#8217;s jammy black fruit in the nose and a little bit of tar and reductive character when first open. In the mouth, the wine is chewy and oaky with a bit of bitterness. P&amp;B in Healdsburg 14.9% $40 at the winery but alas sold out.<a title=\"Bella\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bellarwinery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bella, Dry Creek Valley, Lilly Hill, Estate, Syrah 2005 <\/strong>This Syrah is a also showing the meatier, more reductive side of Syrah in the nose. The mouth features a nice frame of acidity around the red fruits,. There&#8217;s an elegance to this wine, where the edges are softened, the tannins there but ripe, and flavor filling out the whole palate. P&amp;B in Healdsburg 14.8% $38 at the winery but alas sold out.<a title=\"Bella\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bellarwinery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both of the Syrah are aged for 16 months in oak, 20% of which is new and the split is 60% French and 40% American.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bella\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bellarwinery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bella<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bella, Alexander Valley, Big River Ranch, Syrah 2005 There&#8217;s jammy black fruit in the nose and a little bit of tar and reductive character when first open. In the mouth, the wine is chewy and oaky with a bit of bitterness. P&amp;B in Healdsburg 14.9% $40 at the winery but alas sold out. Bella, Dry [&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":[88,26,24,25,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexander-valley","category-california","category-dry-creek-valley","category-sonoma-county","category-syrah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","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=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2752,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions\/2752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}