{"id":6050,"date":"2010-04-28T16:13:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T00:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=6050"},"modified":"2010-04-28T16:13:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T00:13:38","slug":"rhone-blends-from-california-and-chateauneuf-du-pape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/28\/rhone-blends-from-california-and-chateauneuf-du-pape\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhone blends from California and Chateauneuf-du-Pape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Tablas Creek Vineyard, Paso Robles,  Cotes de Tablas 2008 <\/strong>The fruit is fresh and lively in the nose, with floral notes and sweet spice. In the mouth it is medium-bodied, very fruity and structured, making it a winner with grilled pork and a fruity but savoury reduction sauce. This red Rhone-style blend is composed of 42% Grenache, 21% Syrah 17% Mourvedre and 20% Counoise, all organically  grown. This wine is now bottled under Stelvin. GP&amp;B in Paso Robles 14.5% purchased for $21.69 at Bottle Barn<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of this estate and they are a must-see when you are in Paso. <a title=\"Tablas Creek\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tablascreek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tablas  Creek Vineyard<\/a><\/div>\n<div><strong>Andre Brunel, Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Les Cailloux 2007<\/strong> There&#8217;s a fair degree of horse blanket marking the nose with vanilla and brown spices. In the mouth the bretty theme continues with meatiness and dried fruits. There&#8217;s plenty of structure, making this chewy wine a baby but accessible with a thick piece of red meat or some blood sausage. The oaky notes add refinement and the flavors go on and on &#8211; very nice. This is their estate CDP. 65% old vine  Grenache, 20% Mourvedre, 12% Syrah and 3% Cinsault, aged for 18 months  in a combo of new and used oak, unfined and unfitered. 14% purchased for $38.49 at  Bottle Barn<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tablas Creek Vineyard, Paso Robles, Cotes de Tablas 2008 The fruit is fresh and lively in the nose, with floral notes and sweet spice. In the mouth it is medium-bodied, very fruity and structured, making it a winner with grilled pork and a fruity but savoury reduction sauce. This red Rhone-style blend is composed of [&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":[26,248,761,15,150,52,11,118,84],"tags":[762],"class_list":["post-6050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-chateauneuf-du-pape","category-counoise","category-grenache","category-mourvedre","category-paso-robles","category-rhone","category-rhone-blend","category-syrah","tag-tablas-creek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050","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=6050"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6054,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions\/6054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}