{"id":345,"date":"2008-07-29T16:42:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T00:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2008-07-29T16:53:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T00:53:11","slug":"going-the-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/29\/going-the-distance\/","title":{"rendered":"Going the distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gunderloch, Rheinhessen, Jean-Baptiste, Riesling, Kabinett QmP 2002 <\/strong>This wine goes on after 6 years since the harvest, despite evidence of leaking and a then newish screwcap seal that appears to not have been perfect. There are notes of lanolin and citrus fruit to smell. The mouth tastes of tart green fruit, still possessing a zippy zing (is that redundant?) in a light-bodied format, with a touch of RS.<\/p>\n<p>We often lay-down our top German Rieslings for aging. Yet here again we see that Riesling, even in its more humble incarnations, has staying power. Like other quality-oriented German producers, the Hasselbach family began making this wine as a branded regional blend. Such wines could help entice consumers unfamiliar with the complexities of German labels to give these great producers a try. Gutsabfullung in Nackenheim10.5% $14.49 at Bottle Barn <a title=\"Gunderloch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gunderloch.de\" target=\"_blank\">Gunderloch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunderloch, Rheinhessen, Jean-Baptiste, Riesling, Kabinett QmP 2002 This wine goes on after 6 years since the harvest, despite evidence of leaking and a then newish screwcap seal that appears to not have been perfect. There are notes of lanolin and citrus fruit to smell. The mouth tastes of tart green fruit, still possessing a zippy [&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":[101,271,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-rheinhessen","category-riesling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","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=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}