{"id":8123,"date":"2011-05-25T15:01:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T23:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=8123"},"modified":"2011-05-25T15:02:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T23:02:13","slug":"another-taste-of-the-wines-of-south-coast-winery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/25\/another-taste-of-the-wines-of-south-coast-winery\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Taste of the Wines of South Coast Winery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-7869\">\n<div id=\"content_div-2696\">The team at VESTA joined today&#8217;s tasting of wines from Southern California.\u00a0 Ray&#8217;s sense of time zones (or lack of sense) led to us beginning at 4:00 p.m. Central Time, giving us the jump on the group tasting in Temecula.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a preview of two of the beauties on the docket tonight.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>South Coast Winery, Temecula Valley, Sparkling Brut nv <\/strong>The nose of this bubbly offers a medley of <a href=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Brut-Sparkling-Wine_M.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8123]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-8130\" title=\"Brut-Sparkling-Wine_M\" src=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Brut-Sparkling-Wine_M-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"South Coast Winery Brut\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Brut-Sparkling-Wine_M-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Brut-Sparkling-Wine_M-200x198.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>fruits, including pears, pineapple, white peach and nectarine with an accent of butterscotch. In the mouth it is very rich and buttery with some mineral character and a lowish acid profile adding to its immediate approachability.  The grapes behind this wine are 65% Chardonnay and 35% Pinot Noir. The dosage is 14 grams per litre. Produced and bottled in Temecula 13% $18 at the winery.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/SCW_winery_2ndTier_troom.png\" rel=\"lightbox[8123]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8131\" title=\"SCW_winery_2ndTier_troom\" src=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/SCW_winery_2ndTier_troom-150x150.png\" alt=\"South Coast Winery tasting room\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>South Coast Winery, Temecula Valley, Carter Estate Vineyards, Sauvignon Blanc, Muscque Clone 2009 <\/strong>The nose is quite vibrant, featuring a great blast of terpene character, a sort of Muscat touch, with melon and tropical fruits. It displays a great ripeness of fruit and reminds one of the smell of Gewurz and Muscat rolled into one wine.  In the mouth it is thick and fruity while balanced with a thread of acidity &#8211; nice and sure to be a crowd pleaser. Produced and bottled in Temecula 12.2% $14 at the winery for the upcoming vintage.<\/div>\n<div><a title=\"South Coast\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wineresort.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">South Coast Winery<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team at VESTA joined today&#8217;s tasting of wines from Southern California.\u00a0 Ray&#8217;s sense of time zones (or lack of sense) led to us beginning at 4:00 p.m. Central Time, giving us the jump on the group tasting in Temecula.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a preview of two of the beauties on the docket tonight. South Coast Winery, [&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":[26,106,951,80,442],"tags":[1016],"class_list":["post-8123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-sauvignon-blanc","category-south-coast","category-sparkling-dry","category-temecula","tag-south-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8123","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=8123"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8137,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8123\/revisions\/8137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}