{"id":321,"date":"2008-07-11T17:23:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T01:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2008-07-12T10:14:03","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T18:14:03","slug":"merlot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/11\/merlot\/","title":{"rendered":"Merlot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Christian Moueix Bordeaux Merlot 2003<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From the Petrus folks, a value-oriented red from the land of very expensive wine. This is on the earthy side with fruit that is evolving in a raisin direction; it&#8217;s light-bodied and acidic. Mis en bouteille par Jean-Pierre Moueix a Libourne 13% $11.99 at Beverages &amp; more!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selene Napa Valley Frediani Vineyard Merlot 2006 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quite lush, this is loaded with oak. P&amp;B in Napa 14.5% $39.99 at Bottle Barn <a title=\"Selene\" href=\"http:\/\/www.selenewines.com\" target=\"_blank\">Selene<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chateau Bertineau St.-Vincent Lalande-de-Pomerol 2005<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ripe fruit, smelling as if from the New World. In the mouth there is the structure you would expect from France and the earthy flavors which add a nice complexity, a wine to age. Aged for one year in French oak. Mis par Michel Rolland in Pomerol 14% $48 at Traverso&#8217;s <a title=\"Bertineau\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rollandcollection.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bertineau<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Moueix Bordeaux Merlot 2003 From the Petrus folks, a value-oriented red from the land of very expensive wine. This is on the earthy side with fruit that is evolving in a raisin direction; it&#8217;s light-bodied and acidic. Mis en bouteille par Jean-Pierre Moueix a Libourne 13% $11.99 at Beverages &amp; more! Selene Napa Valley [&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":[99,26,257,12,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bordeaux","category-california","category-lalande-de-pomerol","category-merlot","category-napa-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","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=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}