{"id":7713,"date":"2010-12-22T18:51:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T02:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=7713"},"modified":"2010-12-22T18:51:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T02:51:06","slug":"redwood-creek-chardonnay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/22\/redwood-creek-chardonnay\/","title":{"rendered":"Redwood Creek Chardonnay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7716\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Redwood-Creek-Outdoor-Project-Winner.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[7713]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7716\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7716\" title=\"Redwood Creek Outdoor Project Winner\" src=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Redwood-Creek-Outdoor-Project-Winner.jpg\" alt=\"Redwook Creek\" width=\"188\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Winner<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Redwood Creek, California, Chardonnay 2009 <\/strong>This is an easy drinking quaffer, melding California fruit and a viscous mouthfeel. While the concentration is on the lighter side, I have to say that I prefer drinking this to several of the very heavy-handed, outrageously buttery, expensive Chardonnays that I opened earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I am not opposed to buttery richness in Chardonnay; it&#8217;s just a question of balance. Light and fresh with a bit of richness is sometimes the better path, as in this wine here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Winemaker Cal Dennison. Vinted and bottled by Frei Bros. Vineyards in Modesto 13.5% $7.99 suggested US retail, a media sample.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Redwood Creek\" href=\"http:\/\/redwoodcreek.com\" target=\"_blank\">Redwood Creek<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redwood Creek, California, Chardonnay 2009 This is an easy drinking quaffer, melding California fruit and a viscous mouthfeel. While the concentration is on the lighter side, I have to say that I prefer drinking this to several of the very heavy-handed, outrageously buttery, expensive Chardonnays that I opened earlier in the week. I am not [&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":[26,83],"tags":[937],"class_list":["post-7713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-chardonnay","tag-redwood-creek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7713","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=7713"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7719,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7713\/revisions\/7719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}