{"id":475,"date":"2008-08-21T15:54:36","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T23:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=475"},"modified":"2008-08-21T20:23:32","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T04:23:32","slug":"from-sf-head-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/21\/from-sf-head-east\/","title":{"rendered":"From SF head east"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rombauer, California, Zinfandel 2006 <\/strong>This has always been on the very rich end of Zin styles with perceptible residual sugar &#8211; nonetheless a crowd-pleaser. This vintage follows the same path. The fruit is 59% Amador, 24% Napa, 11% lake and 6% El Dorado Counties. V&amp;B in St. Helena 15.5% $27.99 at Traverso&#8217;s <a title=\"Rombauer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rombauer.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rombauer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Van Ruiten, Lodi, Estate Grown, Petite Sirah 2004 <\/strong>This winery has been rising on the radar screen. We had a great visit there organized by Mark Chandler a few years ago where we tasted a number of very good wines. This is on the pruny side with a sweet and ripe expression of the grape that still delivers the tannic structure you would expect of Petite with some refreshing acidity. Estate bottled in Lodi 14.5% $18.99 at the winery <a title=\"Van Ruiten\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vrwinery.com\" target=\"_blank\">Van Ruiten<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rombauer, California, Zinfandel 2006 This has always been on the very rich end of Zin styles with perceptible residual sugar &#8211; nonetheless a crowd-pleaser. This vintage follows the same path. The fruit is 59% Amador, 24% Napa, 11% lake and 6% El Dorado Counties. V&amp;B in St. Helena 15.5% $27.99 at Traverso&#8217;s Rombauer Van Ruiten, [&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":[67,26,279,92,51,66,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amador-county","category-california","category-el-dorado-county","category-lake-county","category-napa-valley","category-sierra-foothills","category-zinfandel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","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=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}