{"id":4152,"date":"2009-10-18T17:36:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T01:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=4152"},"modified":"2009-10-18T17:36:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T01:36:42","slug":"tandem-porter-bass-chard-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/18\/tandem-porter-bass-chard-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Tandem Porter-Bass Chard 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tandem, Russian River Valley, Porter-Bass Vineyard, Chardonnay 2005 <\/strong>With 4 years since the harvest this wine is developing some nice complexity. The nose sports wet stones, toastiness, tropical fruits, hay and lanolin. In the mouth there is a richness of texture, an unctuous quality that is counterbalanced by acidity and minerality. The wine has great depth and length &#8211; very nice.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4156\" title=\"Tandem Porter-Bass Chardonnay\" src=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Tandem-Porter-Bass-Chardonnay-166x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tandem Porter-Bass Chardonnay\" width=\"70\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Tandem-Porter-Bass-Chardonnay-166x300.jpg 166w, https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Tandem-Porter-Bass-Chardonnay.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 70px) 100vw, 70px\" \/>The grapes were farmed biodynamically by Sue Porter and Dirck Bass. The wine was fermented in French oak barrels, 1\/3 of which were\u00a0 new and the wines was subsequently treated to some aging sur lie. Winemaker Greg La Follette. P&amp;B in Sebastopol 14.1% $42 at the winery, a gift from Greg during my visit there, written about in the Phoenix flight post of August &#8217;08.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tandem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tandemwinery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tandem<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tandem, Russian River Valley, Porter-Bass Vineyard, Chardonnay 2005 With 4 years since the harvest this wine is developing some nice complexity. The nose sports wet stones, toastiness, tropical fruits, hay and lanolin. In the mouth there is a richness of texture, an unctuous quality that is counterbalanced by acidity and minerality. The wine has great [&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":[26,83,27,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-chardonnay","category-russian-river-valley","category-sonoma-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152","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=4152"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4158,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions\/4158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}