{"id":3503,"date":"2009-08-06T19:43:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T03:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2009-08-06T19:43:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T03:43:42","slug":"chateau-lascombes-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/06\/chateau-lascombes-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Chateau Lascombes 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chateau Lascombes, Margaux 2005 <\/strong>This wine is super toasty in the nose with hints of dark chocolate and cassis. The mouth is quite structured urging a good 10 years and more in the cellar, yet already the black fruit is popping out. Fire up the grill for a big steak if you have to dring this tonight. 84 hectares are planted to 50% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Petit Verdot on soils of gravel, clay-limestone and clay-gravel. The final blend for the &#8217;05 is 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot and 3% Petit Verdot and the wine was aged exclusively in new French oak. Consulting winemaker since 2001 is Michel Rolland. Mis en bouteilles au chateau a Margaux 13.5% $87.99 at Bottle Barn <a title=\"Lascombes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chateau-lascombes.com\" target=\"_blank\">Chateau Lascombes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chateau Lascombes, Margaux 2005 This wine is super toasty in the nose with hints of dark chocolate and cassis. The mouth is quite structured urging a good 10 years and more in the cellar, yet already the black fruit is popping out. Fire up the grill for a big steak if you have to dring [&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":[99,89,35,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bordeaux","category-cabernet-sauvignon","category-france","category-merlot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","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=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3514,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}