{"id":4704,"date":"2009-11-20T19:17:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T03:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=4704"},"modified":"2009-11-20T19:47:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T03:47:37","slug":"napa-valley-rutherford-reds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/20\/napa-valley-rutherford-reds\/","title":{"rendered":"Napa Valley Rutherford Reds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong> <\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Trinchero Winery, Napa Valley, Rutherford, Chicken Ranch Vineyard, Merlot 2005 <\/strong>Give the wine a bit of air for 10 minutes or so to blow off a bit of funk. Then the plummy fruit combines with the wet forest floor and a bit cedar in the nose. In the mouth plums and raspberries come through on a soft carpet, light-bodied and easy drinking.  Winemaker Mario Monticelli. Grown, produced and bottled in St. Helena 13.5% $35 at the winery for the latest vintage &#8217;07 <a title=\"Trinchero\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trincheronapavalley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trinchero Napa Valley<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><strong>Sawyer Cellars, Napa Valley, Rutherford, Estate Bottled, Bradford Meritage 2005 <\/strong>Cigar box and evolving fruit are joined by a bit of volatility. In the mouth, the wine is plush, creamy and a little warm. P&amp;B in Rutherford 14.1% $44 at the winery <a title=\"Sawyer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sawyercellars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sawyer Cellars<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><strong>Sawyer Cellars, Napa Valley, Rutherford, Estate Bottled, Bradford Meritage 2004 <\/strong>With a little air the fruit really pops, amped up by a little volatility. The mouth is densely packed with fruit, there&#8217;s an acidic frame and polished edges. P&amp;B in Rutherford 14.1% This vintage is sold out at the winery but the &#8217;03 is still available for $48 <a title=\"Sawyer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sawyercellars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sawyer Cellars<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank Family Vineyards, Rutherford, Napa Valley, Reserve, Cabernet Sauvignon 2003 <\/strong>There&#8217;s a strong sense of eucalyptus and sweet oak in the nose while the palate shows off vanilla with black fruit, structured yet very silky and long. V&amp;B in Calistoag 14.5% sold out at the winery but the &#8217;06 is available on allocation &#8211; contact the winery <a title=\"Frank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.frankfamilyvineyards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frank<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinchero Winery, Napa Valley, Rutherford, Chicken Ranch Vineyard, Merlot 2005 Give the wine a bit of air for 10 minutes or so to blow off a bit of funk. Then the plummy fruit combines with the wet forest floor and a bit cedar in the nose. In the mouth plums and raspberries come through on [&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":[91,89,26,90,12,51,259],"tags":[521,520,519],"class_list":["post-4704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bordeaux-style-blends","category-cabernet-sauvignon","category-california","category-meritage","category-merlot","category-napa-valley","category-rutherford","tag-frank-family-vineyards","tag-sawyer-cellars","tag-trinchero-winery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704","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=4704"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4713,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions\/4713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}