{"id":3317,"date":"2009-07-29T18:52:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T02:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=3317"},"modified":"2009-07-29T18:52:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T02:52:43","slug":"smith-haut-lafitte-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/29\/smith-haut-lafitte-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith Haut Lafitte 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p><strong>Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte, Pessac-Leognan 2005 <\/strong>The nose smells of leather, earth, smokiness, horse blanket and a host of descriptors that get at a sense of brettanomycees as complexity rather than a flaw. That said, I know that this level of brett would be too much for those seeking a more purely fruity expression of the grapes of this appellation. This direction certainly has been consistent in the estate&#8217;s wines over time. and I think it hits the mark right on the edge without going over. The mouth is supple yet dense &#8211; filling the whole palate with flavor, the taste of dark chocolate. The estate is planted to 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 13% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot. Mis au chateau by the Cathiard family, proprietaire a Martillac 13.5% $86.99 at Bottle Barn <a title=\"Smith Haut Lafitte\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smith-haut-lafitte.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smith Haut Lafitte<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte, Pessac-Leognan 2005 The nose smells of leather, earth, smokiness, horse blanket and a host of descriptors that get at a sense of brettanomycees as complexity rather than a flaw. That said, I know that this level of brett would be too much for those seeking a more purely fruity expression of [&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":[99,127,89,35,12,164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bordeaux","category-cabernet-franc","category-cabernet-sauvignon","category-france","category-merlot","category-pessac-leognan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317","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=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3330,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions\/3330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}