{"id":762,"date":"2008-09-20T15:48:27","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T23:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=762"},"modified":"2008-09-20T18:36:30","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T02:36:30","slug":"sauvignon-that-sings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/20\/sauvignon-that-sings\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauvignon that sings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-767 alignnone\" title=\"view from the tasting room\" src=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/dutcher-crossing-300x135.jpg\" alt=\"from the tasting room\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/dutcher-crossing-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/dutcher-crossing.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dutcher Crossing, Dry Creek Valley, Sauvignon Blanc 2007<\/strong> This Sauvignon smells of sweet and ripe tropical fruit. The fresh fruit continues on the palate where there is a softer, rounder feel than with many Sauvignon. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love an in-your-face, herbaceous, acid-dominated Sauvignon as much as the next fellow. But isn&#8217;t it nice to find one that is a bit more luscious?<\/p>\n<p>Winemaker Danny Glover attributes the freshness in the nose and the roundness of the palate to his blending of 3% Viognier and 3% Semillon into the mix, with a short stint in barrel at the end.<\/p>\n<p>Plan a visit to the winery on a sunny day. The views out from the tasting room are impressive from the winery&#8217;s vantage point on Dry Creek Road. After tasting the line and buying a bottle, you can take in the view from the picnic tables out back. Pack a gourmet lunch from the Oakville Grocery in downtown Healdsburg so you can stay in the valley for the rest of the afternoon. Does it get better than this? <a title=\"Dutcher Crossing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dutchercrossingwinery.com\" target=\"_blank\">Dutcher Crossing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutcher Crossing, Dry Creek Valley, Sauvignon Blanc 2007 This Sauvignon smells of sweet and ripe tropical fruit. The fresh fruit continues on the palate where there is a softer, rounder feel than with many Sauvignon. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love an in-your-face, herbaceous, acid-dominated Sauvignon as much as the next fellow. But isn&#8217;t it [&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":[26,24,106,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-dry-creek-valley","category-sauvignon-blanc","category-sonoma-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","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=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}