{"id":322,"date":"2008-07-11T17:41:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T01:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=322"},"modified":"2008-07-12T13:57:52","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T21:57:52","slug":"bordeaux-and-her-blends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/11\/bordeaux-and-her-blends\/","title":{"rendered":"Bordeaux and her blends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chateau Sociando-Mallet Haut-Medoc 2005<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Toasty oak, ripe tannins and black fruits &#8211; delicious. 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Franc from vines at an average 30 years old. Mis au chateau par Jean Gautreau in St. Seurin de Cadourne 13% $54.99 at Beverages &amp; more!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sequoia Grove Rutherford Napa Valley Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2001<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The last time I had this wine, an earlier vintage, at the Cabernet Shootout, it was one of my top picks. Let&#8217;s see how this bottle of 2001 is showing today. There&#8217;s mint and the cigar box, bay leaf and black fruits. The palate has smoothed out and the acidity drives the flavor for a long time. Winemaker Jim Allen. P&amp;B in Rutherford 14.2% $60 for the current release 2004 at the winery. This bottle was from the cellar thus I don&#8217;t have the price at hand for the 2001 <a title=\"Sequoia Grove\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sequoiagrove.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sequoia Grove<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chateau Sociando-Mallet Haut-Medoc 2005 Toasty oak, ripe tannins and black fruits &#8211; delicious. 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Franc from vines at an average 30 years old. Mis au chateau par Jean Gautreau in St. Seurin de Cadourne 13% $54.99 at Beverages &amp; more! Sequoia Grove Rutherford Napa Valley Reserve Cabernet 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":[99,89,26,258,12,51,259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bordeaux","category-cabernet-sauvignon","category-california","category-haut-medoc","category-merlot","category-napa-valley","category-rutherford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","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=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}