{"id":8348,"date":"2012-04-01T17:56:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T01:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=8348"},"modified":"2012-04-01T17:56:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T01:56:55","slug":"darenberg-custodian-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/01\/darenberg-custodian-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"d&#8217;Arenberg Custodian 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-7450\">\n<p><strong>d&#8217;Arenberg, McLaren Vale, The Custodian, Grenache 2009 <\/strong>The nose features <a href=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/The_Custodian_Bottle.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8348]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8352\" title=\"The_Custodian_Bottle\" src=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/The_Custodian_Bottle-81x300.jpg\" alt=\"d'Arenberg Custodian Grenache\" width=\"65\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/The_Custodian_Bottle-81x300.jpg 81w, https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/The_Custodian_Bottle.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 65px) 100vw, 65px\" \/><\/a>sweet, lolly-like berry notes that follow through in the mouth. The flavor profile is driven by the fruit, emphasizing the grapes in the vineyard while the texture is quite silky with a little warmth &#8211; very nice.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The wine was aged in older American and  French oak barrels for 9 months. Winemaker Chester Osborn. Grown, produced and bottled in McLaren  Vale, 15% a media sample, available online for $20 at <a title=\"Old Bridge Cellars\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oldbridgecellars.com\/store\/pc\/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=34&amp;idproduct=22\" target=\"_blank\">Old Bridge Cellars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the winery online at <a title=\"d'Arenberg\" href=\"http:\/\/darenberg.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">d&#8217;Arenberg<\/a>.\u00a0 Visit them in South Australia if you are in the neighborhood.\u00a0 They&#8217;re not far from Adelaide and the range of wines is quite delicious. Though I&#8217;m naturally biased after my visit to the cellar door during my stint at Uni Adelaide, they really do have a wide range of fans around the world &#8211; it&#8217;s not just me waiving the flag.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>d&#8217;Arenberg, McLaren Vale, The Custodian, Grenache 2009 The nose features sweet, lolly-like berry notes that follow through in the mouth. The flavor profile is driven by the fruit, emphasizing the grapes in the vineyard while the texture is quite silky with a little warmth &#8211; very nice. The wine was aged in older American 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":[93,15,117,133],"tags":[632],"class_list":["post-8348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-grenache","category-mclaren-vale","category-south-australia","tag-darenberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348","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=8348"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8360,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348\/revisions\/8360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}