{"id":953,"date":"2008-10-08T18:10:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T02:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=953"},"modified":"2008-10-08T19:02:12","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T03:02:12","slug":"bordeaux-blending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/08\/bordeaux-blending\/","title":{"rendered":"Bordeaux blending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chateau Sociando-Mallet, Haut-Medoc 2004 <\/strong>The smells are a mix of earth, cedar, toasty oak and a fitting amount of the barnyard. The mouth if full of plummy fruit with grip. This is definitely leaner and tighter than the &#8217;05 which is quite seductive already. Give it at least 30 minutes to open up though the brett in the background will too much for some.<\/p>\n<p>Notes from the more expensive &#8217;05 tasted in the summer: Toasty oak, ripe tannins and black fruits &#8211; delicious.<\/p>\n<p>Planted 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Franc from vines at an average 30 years old. Mis au chateau par Jean Gautreau in St. Seurin de Cadourne 12.5% $40.99 at Bottle Barn<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wilson, Dry Creek Valley, Roger&#8217;s Fault, Estate, Bordeaux Blend 2003 <\/strong>This smells sweet, sweet and more. The mouth sports liquer-like jammy fruit with the structure of the Cabernet family and big lashings of oak. The grapes in this blend are 37% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot and 28% Cab Franc. GP&amp;B in Healdsburg 14% $28 at the winery <a title=\"Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wilsonwinery.com\" target=\"_blank\">Wilson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chateau Sociando-Mallet, Haut-Medoc 2004 The smells are a mix of earth, cedar, toasty oak and a fitting amount of the barnyard. The mouth if full of plummy fruit with grip. This is definitely leaner and tighter than the &#8217;05 which is quite seductive already. Give it at least 30 minutes to open up though 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":[99,127,89,26,24,35,258,12,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bordeaux","category-cabernet-franc","category-cabernet-sauvignon","category-california","category-dry-creek-valley","category-france","category-haut-medoc","category-merlot","category-sonoma-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","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=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}