{"id":8426,"date":"2012-05-08T17:02:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T01:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=8426"},"modified":"2012-05-08T17:02:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T01:02:49","slug":"more-red-wines-of-lake-county-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/08\/more-red-wines-of-lake-county-2\/","title":{"rendered":"More Red Wines of Lake County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bell Hill, Lake County, Merlot 2005 <\/strong>When first tasted in July 2009, I wrote: the nose features sweet notes of vanilla and cherries while the mouth repeats with ripe tannins, just to let you know they are there &#8220;\u201c very nice.<\/p>\n<p>Tasted again in May 2012, the tannins have resolved a bit further and the fruit still shines. This wine displays the softness that we associate with the grape without being\u00a0innocuous. In a time when people are still bashing Merlot, it is a pleasure to revisit this one.<\/p>\n<p>The grapes for this wine were sourced from Bell Hill in Big Valley, on the south side of Clear Lake. P&amp;B in Kelseyville 13.5% $30 at the Blue Wing\u00a0<a title=\"Bell Hill Vineyards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bellhillvineyards.com\/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bell Hill<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gregory Graham, Red Hills Lake County, Crimson Hills Vineyard, Syrah 2007 <\/strong>Like other wines from Greg, this is\u00a0lush, filling out the whole palate with flavor &#8211; yum. Grown, produced and bottled in Lower Lake 14.4% $35 for a full bottle at the Blue Wing\u00a0<a title=\"Greg Graham\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ggwines.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gregory Graham Wines<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shed Horn Cellars, Lake County, Zinfandel 2009 <\/strong>The nose shows a big heft of oak, preparing the way for a rich experience in the mouth of black fruit, sweet oak and chocolate. This is a full-bodied Zin with ample tannin to pair with that steak you&#8217;re planning to barbecue tonight &#8220;\u201c nice. Cellared and bottled in Middletown 14.4% $28 at the Blue Wing\u00a0<a title=\"Shed Horn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shedhorncellars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shed Horn Cellars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bell Hill, Lake County, Merlot 2005 When first tasted in July 2009, I wrote: the nose features sweet notes of vanilla and cherries while the mouth repeats with ripe tannins, just to let you know they are there &#8220;\u201c very nice. Tasted again in May 2012, the tannins have resolved a bit further and the [&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":[26,92,12,84,5],"tags":[992,910,909],"class_list":["post-8426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-lake-county","category-merlot","category-syrah","category-zinfandel","tag-bell-hill","tag-gregory-graham","tag-shed-horn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426","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=8426"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8433,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions\/8433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}