{"id":65,"date":"2007-10-10T14:28:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T22:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/10\/lombardy-without-the-bubbles-and-the-competition\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T06:37:25","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T14:37:25","slug":"lombardy-without-the-bubbles-and-the-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/10\/lombardy-without-the-bubbles-and-the-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Lombardy Without the Bubbles Versus New World Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a flight of sparkling wines from Franciacorta, this round goes still.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><strong>Ca&#8217; del Bosco Terre di Franciacorta DOCG Maurizio Zanella 2005<\/strong><o:p><\/o:p><br \/>\nThis is a concentrated white wine with layers of flavor and lots of acidity to frame it. 80% Chardonnay, 20% Pinot Bianco, Stainless ferment and 2 mos in large oak. Bottled in Erbusco 12.5% $35 at Traverso&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cadelbosco.it\" title=\"Ca del Bosco\" target=\"_blank\">Ca del Bosco<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><strong>Casa Girelli Provincia di Pavia IGT Canaletto Pinot Noir 2005<\/strong><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><br \/>\nSimple and serviceable for its price level. The grapes are sourced along the Po River and the wine is bottled in Trento 12.5% $8.99 at Traverso&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casagirelli.it\" title=\"Casa Girelli\" target=\"_blank\">Casa Girelli<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>J Russian River Valley Nicole&#8217;s Vineyard Pinot Noir 2004<\/strong><br \/>\nThis wine is polished &#8211; an elegant Pinot that shows its fruit and oak in a supple package, simply delicious. 14.4% $50 at the winery<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwine.com\" title=\"J\" target=\"_blank\"> J <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a flight of sparkling wines from Franciacorta, this round goes still. Ca&#8217; del Bosco Terre di Franciacorta DOCG Maurizio Zanella 2005 This is a concentrated white wine with layers of flavor and lots of acidity to frame it. 80% Chardonnay, 20% Pinot Bianco, Stainless ferment and 2 mos in large oak. Bottled in Erbusco [&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":[26,32,77,76,27,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-italy","category-lombardia","category-pinot-noir","category-russian-river-valley","category-sonoma-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}