{"id":6324,"date":"2010-06-10T18:03:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T02:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=6324"},"modified":"2010-06-10T18:03:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T02:03:24","slug":"v-sattui-semillon-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/10\/v-sattui-semillon-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"V. Sattui Semillon 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Semillon in California seems to have a bit of a Rodney Dangerfield image, playing second fiddle behind the more photogenic stars of the viticultural landscape. Yet in Australia&#8217;s Hunter and Bordeaux&#8217;s Sauternes, it is the star.<\/p>\n<p>I was delighted to find a champion of this grape on our recent visit to California&#8217;s Napa Valley. The incredibly friendly people at V. Sattui hosted my wine class from the Santa Rosa Junior College and the first wine we tasted was Semillon. I purchased two bottles before leaving as the winery does not distribute their wines &#8211; everything is sold from St. Helena &#8211; which leads me to tonight&#8217;s re-exploration of this wine.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/V.-Sattui-Semillon.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[6324]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6328\" title=\"V. Sattui Semillon\" src=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/V.-Sattui-Semillon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>V. Sattui Winery, Napa Valley, Semillon 2008 <\/strong>The nose features green herbs and tropical fruit. In the mouth you&#8217;ll find the addition of citrus fruit, a combo of grapefruit and orange, clean and moderately acidic. Many wineries build-up the mouthfeel with lashings of oak on top of this grape but not here &#8211; the original sense of Semillon is on full display.<\/p>\n<p>The fruit for this wine is sourced from Carneros and Yountville. Besides the Semillon there is a light touch of Sauvignon and Chardonnay in the mix. Produced and bottled in St. Helena 14% purchased at the winery where it retails for $18.75<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"V. Sattui\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vsattui.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">V.  Sattui Winery<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semillon in California seems to have a bit of a Rodney Dangerfield image, playing second fiddle behind the more photogenic stars of the viticultural landscape. Yet in Australia&#8217;s Hunter and Bordeaux&#8217;s Sauternes, it is the star. I was delighted to find a champion of this grape on our recent visit to California&#8217;s Napa Valley. The [&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":[26,51,107],"tags":[806],"class_list":["post-6324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-napa-valley","category-semillon","tag-v-sattui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324","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=6324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6333,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324\/revisions\/6333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}