{"id":3589,"date":"2009-08-11T19:23:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T03:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2010-02-17T15:41:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T23:41:54","slug":"ballatore-spumante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/11\/ballatore-spumante\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballatore Spumante"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ballatore, California, Rosso Spumante nv <\/strong>The nose explodes with sweet red fruits. In the mouth it is quite fruity, tasting of cherries and strawberries in a light-bodied format with plenty of sweetness. The dosage is 76 grams per litre. The bottle tasted was released in December &#8217;08. P&amp;B in Modesto 8.2% $7.99 suggested retail, the most recent bottle purchased was only $6.99 at Bottle Barn in February &#8217;09.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ballatore, California, Gran Spumante nv <\/strong>The nose shows a mild hint of orange blossoms and ginger while in the mouth the orange blossom, ginger ale, Muscat-like essence comes alive, amplified by the sweetness. The dosage is 80 grams per litre. The bottle tasted was released in December &#8217;08. P&amp;B in Modesto 8.2% $7.99 suggested retail<\/p>\n<p>These wines are lighter in concentration than the famous Italian cousins that they emulate. But for the consumer on a budget, these wines are clean and fruity, giving a sense of what awaits you on your next trip to Piemonte.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Gallo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ejgallo.com\" target=\"_blank\">E. &amp; J. Gallo Winery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballatore, California, Rosso Spumante nv The nose explodes with sweet red fruits. In the mouth it is quite fruity, tasting of cherries and strawberries in a light-bodied format with plenty of sweetness. The dosage is 76 grams per litre. The bottle tasted was released in December &#8217;08. P&amp;B in Modesto 8.2% $7.99 suggested retail, the [&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":[26,265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-sparkling-sweet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589","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=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3602,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}