{"id":82,"date":"2007-10-13T10:18:28","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T18:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/13\/riesling-vs-sauternes\/"},"modified":"2008-07-10T16:24:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T00:24:44","slug":"riesling-vs-sauternes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/13\/riesling-vs-sauternes\/","title":{"rendered":"Riesling vs. Sauternes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chateau Suduiraut Sauternes 1er Cru 2003<\/strong><br \/>\nThe wine makes me crave a lemon tart as you taste a reflection of the butter in the crust in the viscosity and butter\/caramel tones in the wine and a reflection of the zippy lemon in the custard in the springy citrus character of the wine. This is one of the region&#8217;s top estates.  92 hectares are planted in clay and sandy soil to 90% Semillon and 10% SB, Recolt a Preignac 14% $58.99 at Bottle Barn <a title=\"Chateau Suduiraut\" href=\"http:\/\/www.suduiraut.com\" target=\"_blank\">Suduiraut<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Greenwood Ridge Mendocino Ridge Estate Bottled Late Harvest White Riesling 2006<\/strong><br \/>\nIt is again a fresh fruit bonanza with thickness and honey. The Dragon bottle and the wine inside have been a consistent crowd-pleaser with it&#8217;s accent on fresh peaches and apricots.  Botrytis adds complexity, brix of 39 and a final RS of 180 g\/l. GP&amp;B up above Philo 11% $19.99 (375ml) at Bottle Barn <a title=\"Greenwood Ridge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greenwoodridge.com\" target=\"_blank\">Greenwood Ridge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chateau Suduiraut Sauternes 1er Cru 2003 The wine makes me crave a lemon tart as you taste a reflection of the butter in the crust in the viscosity and butter\/caramel tones in the wine and a reflection of the zippy lemon in the custard in the springy citrus character of the wine. This is one [&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":[26,35,22,28,103,105,106,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-france","category-late-harvest-white","category-mendocino-county","category-riesling","category-sauternes","category-sauvignon-blanc","category-semillon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}