{"id":11,"date":"2004-05-23T14:27:38","date_gmt":"2004-05-23T22:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2004-05-23T14:27:38","modified_gmt":"2004-05-23T22:27:38","slug":"merlot-tasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/2004\/05\/23\/merlot-tasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Merlot tasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So last Friday night, we had a Merlot tasting. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nHere are my <a href=\"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/wine\/20040521-Merlot.pdf\">scores<\/a> for the seven wines that we tasted, a 2000 Sterling Napa Merlot, 2000 Rombauer Napa Merlot, 2000 St. Francis Merlot, 2001 Franciscan Napa Merlot, 2002 Bogle Merlot, 2002 Smoking Loon Merlot, and a 2000 M. Trinchero Merlot.<\/p>\n<p>That was the order in which I preferred them. (Or is it the order that I hated the least?) I&#8217;ve actually had Merlots that I liked and would buy again. For example, I like the one from Tefft Cellars and Coppola&#8217;s Diamond Series Merlot.<\/p>\n<p>If you thought I was tough on them in the scores, you should have seen the low ratings that the Merlot drinkers that I sat with gave them. They were brutal. I noticed that they were paying a lot of attention to the way that the wine looked. If it was a young wine, it had to be crystal clear and not a bit of brown. They needed have a nice-fruity aroma, and a balanced flavor.<\/p>\n<p>I preferred the Sterling over the Rombauer, but I believe that I was the only one who did so. That was until price was considered, then I sat in the majority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So last Friday night, we had a Merlot tasting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}