{"id":70,"date":"2007-10-11T08:22:14","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T16:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/11\/sonoma-county-harvest-fair-best-of-class-italian-varieties-and-more\/"},"modified":"2007-10-13T14:11:47","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T22:11:47","slug":"sonoma-county-harvest-fair-best-of-class-italian-varieties-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/11\/sonoma-county-harvest-fair-best-of-class-italian-varieties-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonoma County Harvest Fair Best of Class Italian Varieties and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>D&#8217;Argenzio Sonoma Valley D&#8217;Alfonso Sangiovese 2005<\/strong><br \/>\nI had an opportunity to taste this wine twice in the past 2 weeks, once at the sweeps round and again during the D&#8217;Arenzio Harvest Party at the winery on Cleveland Avenue. This wine sports fresh red fruits in a light-bodied package where the acidity is in balance and there is a kiss of sweet oak. V&amp;B in Santa Rosa 14.4% $22.49 at Bottle Barn <a href=\"http:\/\/dargenziowine.com\" title=\"D'Argenzio\" target=\"_blank\">D&#8217;Argenzio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also if you visit the winery, make sure to check out the following wines:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zinfandel Rosa 2005<\/strong> &#8211; this atypical rose is a very oaky style that is creamy and rich. The wine was barrel fermented, aged in US oak of which 50% was new and the wine went through ML $22 at the winery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Baldacci Zinfandel 2004 <\/strong>&#8211; this single vineyard Zin is ripe, jammy and very smooth. Ray says he treated the fruit to a 2-week long cold soak to bring out all that fruity character $40 at the winery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kunde Estate Sonoma Valley Block 3BB04 Estate Grown Barbera 2004<\/strong><br \/>\nDuring the sweeps round, the hallmark acidity of Barbera shined in this wine.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a concentration of fruit that keeps up with the substantial yet ripe tannin. Aged in new and used US oak for 17 mos. GP&amp;B in Kenwood 14.4% $21.99 at Bottle Barn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kunde.com\" title=\"Kunde\" target=\"_blank\">Kunde<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D&#8217;Argenzio Sonoma Valley D&#8217;Alfonso Sangiovese 2005 I had an opportunity to taste this wine twice in the past 2 weeks, once at the sweeps round and again during the D&#8217;Arenzio Harvest Party at the winery on Cleveland Avenue. This wine sports fresh red fruits in a light-bodied package where the acidity is in balance and [&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":[38,26,3,56,25,60,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbera","category-california","category-rose","category-sangiovese","category-sonoma-county","category-sonoma-valley","category-zinfandel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}