{"id":6199,"date":"2010-05-12T19:45:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T03:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=6199"},"modified":"2010-08-07T11:01:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T19:01:11","slug":"left-bank-bordeaux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/12\/left-bank-bordeaux\/","title":{"rendered":"Left Bank Bordeaux"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Chateau Giscours, Margaux 2006 <\/strong>The nose of this wine features a strong whiff of smoky oak and leather with red fruits and sweet tobacco. In the mouth, the fruit comes alive, with fresh berries and dried cranberries and the accent of earth and leather &#8211; very nice. 82  hectares of vines are planted on gravel and sand. The mix of vines is 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 32% Merlot and the remaining is a combination of  Cab Franc and Petit Verdot. Mis au chateau in Margaux 13% purchased for $75.99 at Beverages and more! <a title=\"Giscours\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chateau-giscours.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chateau Giscours<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong>Chateau Branaire-Ducru, Saint-Julien 2007 <\/strong>Unfortunately the bottle tasted in May was corked.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The bottle purchased in July 2010 shows the true story &#8211; leather wrapped around black fruit. In the mouth it is quite approachable. Certainly the wine is chewy, yet the fruit really shines and there is a nice streak of acidity. Warm up the barbecue for a big steak and you&#8217;ll be fine.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The property is planted  to 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit  Verdot. 80-85% of the final blend is typically Cabernet Sauvignon and  over one-third of the barriques are new. Mis en bouteille a Saint-Julien  13% purchased for $59.99 at Beverages and more! in May and K&amp;L in July for $35.99<\/div>\n<div><a title=\"Branaire-Ducru\" href=\"http:\/\/www.branaire.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chateau Branaire-Ducru<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chateau Giscours, Margaux 2006 The nose of this wine features a strong whiff of smoky oak and leather with red fruits and sweet tobacco. In the mouth, the fruit comes alive, with fresh berries and dried cranberries and the accent of earth and leather &#8211; very nice. 82 hectares of vines are planted on gravel [&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":[99,89,35,100,12,199],"tags":[792,791],"class_list":["post-6199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bordeaux","category-cabernet-sauvignon","category-france","category-margaux","category-merlot","category-saint-julien","tag-branaire-ducru","tag-chateau-giscours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199","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=6199"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6217,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions\/6217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}