{"id":468,"date":"2008-08-20T16:30:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T00:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=468"},"modified":"2009-07-27T19:36:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T03:36:01","slug":"up-and-down-the-rhone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/20\/up-and-down-the-rhone\/","title":{"rendered":"Up and down the Rhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>E. Guigal, Cotes du Rhone 2005 <\/strong>This wine is typically on the more polished side of Rhone blends with a hint of oak. That sense comes through again with a bit of earth and dried fruits. The blend is 55% Syrah, 35% Grenache, 8% Mourvedre and some other stuff. Eleve et mis en bouteille Ampuis 13% $12.49 at Bottle Barn <a title=\"Guigal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guigal.com\" target=\"_blank\">Guigal<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Domaine des Entrefaux, Crozes-Hermitage, 2006 <\/strong>Black pepper, minerality, black fruit and structure in a good value Northern Rhone Syrah. With an extra 2 months the fruit is starting to pop out in a bigger way. Moving onto to July &#8217;09, the rubber notes are getting stronger and will be too much for some.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The level of tannin and acid cry out for some sausages to pair with. The wine spends time split evenly between barrels, foudres and inert tanks. <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">Charles &amp; Francois Tardy a Chanos-Curson 12.5% $19.99 at Bottle Barn <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E. Guigal, Cotes du Rhone 2005 This wine is typically on the more polished side of Rhone blends with a hint of oak. That sense comes through again with a bit of earth and dried fruits. The blend is 55% Syrah, 35% Grenache, 8% Mourvedre and some other stuff. Eleve et mis en bouteille Ampuis [&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":[203,74,35,15,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cotes-du-rhone","category-crozes-hermitage","category-france","category-grenache","category-syrah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3256,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/3256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}