{"id":8575,"date":"2012-11-24T18:34:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T02:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=8575"},"modified":"2012-11-24T18:34:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T02:34:37","slug":"cyrus-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/24\/cyrus-1998\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyrus 1998"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Cyrus.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8575]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8580\" title=\"Cyrus\" src=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Cyrus-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cyrus Bordeaux blend\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Cyrus-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Cyrus.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Alexander Valley Vineyards, Cyrus 1998\u00a0<\/strong>14 years on this wine is looking youthful in the glass, with hues of red and just a hint of orange at the edge. \u00a0In the nose an oaky expression entices with an expectation of richness.\u00a0On the palate the wine is supple, a swatch of velvet with flavors of toffee, caramel and chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>This Bordeaux-blend is on top of the curve of a wine&#8217;s life, in a beautiful period for enjoying this holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re having turkey over Christmas and the New Year, you might not consider a Bordeaux blend to be a fitting accompaniment. \u00a0Yet as they age, with the right amount of maturity, they can have the stuffing to make a good partner to a bird. Give it a try. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been opening some of these mature gems alongside roast chicken to great enjoyment.<\/p>\n<p>$55 for the current release 2008 vintage, the bottle in hand was the gift of a friend.\u00a0<a title=\"Alexander Valley Vineyards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avvwine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Valley Vineyards<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Valley Vineyards, Cyrus 1998\u00a014 years on this wine is looking youthful in the glass, with hues of red and just a hint of orange at the edge. \u00a0In the nose an oaky expression entices with an expectation of richness.\u00a0On the palate the wine is supple, a swatch of velvet with flavors of toffee, caramel [&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":[88,91,89,26,25],"tags":[1002,1003],"class_list":["post-8575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexander-valley","category-bordeaux-style-blends","category-cabernet-sauvignon","category-california","category-sonoma-county","tag-alexander-valley-vineyards","tag-cyrus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8575","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=8575"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8584,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8575\/revisions\/8584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}