{"id":6712,"date":"2010-07-28T19:33:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T03:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=6712"},"modified":"2010-07-28T20:19:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T04:19:04","slug":"california-syrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/28\/california-syrah\/","title":{"rendered":"California Syrah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>JC Cellars, Santa Barbara County, Fess Parker&#8217;s Vineyard, Syrah 2007 <\/strong>Give this wine a bit of air, 10 minutes or so to blow off a bit of reductive character. Then the black fruit will emerge, wrapped in a jacket of leather. In the mouth there are notes of tar and smoke, a meatiness, structured yet with ripe tannins that make this wine chewy yet accessible. Warm up the barbecue and ready the lamb for this wine. Owner and winemaker Jeff Cohn. P&amp;B in Oakland 14.5% purchased for $23.99 at Bottle  Barn <a title=\"JC Cellars\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jccellars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">JC Cellars<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Foxen, Santa Ynez Valley, Toasted Rope, Syrah 2008 <\/strong>The nose is intensely fruity, redolent of blueberries and lilacs. In the mouth the fruit gives an encore with a little thick richness, a velvety feel and long acidity &#8211; very nice.<\/p>\n<p>84% Syrah and  16% Viognier. P&amp;B in Santa Maria 14.8% $35.99 at Bottle Barn <a title=\"Foxen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxenvineyard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Foxen<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JC Cellars, Santa Barbara County, Fess Parker&#8217;s Vineyard, Syrah 2007 Give this wine a bit of air, 10 minutes or so to blow off a bit of reductive character. Then the black fruit will emerge, wrapped in a jacket of leather. In the mouth there are notes of tar and smoke, a meatiness, structured yet [&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":[26,71,72,84],"tags":[758,863],"class_list":["post-6712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-santa-barbara-county","category-santa-ynez-valley","category-syrah","tag-foxen","tag-jc-cellars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712","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=6712"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6729,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712\/revisions\/6729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}