{"id":29,"date":"2009-08-18T11:41:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T18:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artisanwineclub.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2009-08-18T12:15:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T19:15:01","slug":"wine-tasting-august-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wine-tasting-august-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine Tasting August 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                            <em>click on red counter to post a comment<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was a quieter day at the wine shop on Saturday, more amenable to conversation than some recent Saturdays, very pleasant. Nancy B came by with her grown-up twins Sierra and Christopher both visiting with their respective partners. It&#8217;s always a little startling how much time and experience have happened in the lives of younger adults in a couple of years compared to when we are older. As if the soup of our lives tends to dilute if we don&#8217;t keep adding a little fat here, a little spice there, and keep ladling deep to bring up the goodies that may have sunk to the bottom and been forgotten. You know, a piece of chicken, a mushroom, the odd chunk of rutabaga&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>All the wines showed well on Saturday, with the rosada and the verdejo fillling the lighter side of the increasingly sunny afternoon, and the the OS blend and the Ojai syrah adding structure and dimensionality.<\/p>\n<p>Took several pictures but they came out a bit blurry; here&#8217;s Pat, wearing her new &#8220;&#8221;grapron&#8221; (gift last week from Kir) and Nancy wearing a nice smile&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=246123960  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/images\/pat_apron_nancy.jpg\" alt=\"modeling new wine apron\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This Saturday we have another nice lineup, hope you can make it!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Montinore Borealis White\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oregon\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $10 <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>back by popular demand! Grapefruit, pineapple, peach, and quince with aromas of fresh flowers<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Emilio Moro Finca Resalso 07   Spain\u00a0\u00a0$13  <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>enticing perfume of mineral, violets, black cherry, and blackberry. On the palate it reveals an elegant personality, savory, spicy flavors, good depth, and a fruit-filled finish. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Juan Gil 04 Spain\u00a0\u00a0 $14:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>This rich, full-bodied, inky\/purple-tinged cuvee exhibits aromas of scorched earth, blueberries, licorice, and pepper, a savory, layered texture, and remarkable opulence for a Mourvedre<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Marchetti Rosso Conero &#8217;03 Italy :$22<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>made only from &#8220;free run juice&#8221; with enticing notes of exotic spice, vanilla, dried cranberry, and bitter, dark chocolate.<\/em>  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>click on red counter to post a comment It was a quieter day at the wine shop on Saturday, more amenable to conversation than some recent Saturdays, very pleasant. Nancy B came by with her grown-up twins Sierra and Christopher both visiting with their respective partners. It&#8217;s always a little startling how much time and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-tasting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}