{"id":129,"date":"2005-11-29T19:59:32","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T03:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2005-11-29T19:59:32","modified_gmt":"2005-11-30T03:59:32","slug":"2003-french-hill-winery-sierra-foothills-barbera-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/2005\/11\/29\/2003-french-hill-winery-sierra-foothills-barbera-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2003 French Hill Winery Sierra Foothills Barbera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Their web site lists an award winning \u00e2\u20ac\u01532003 Grand Reserve Barbera\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but my bottle doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say anything about it being a Grand Reserve so I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think that the bottle I had is the same thing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That is good because I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to feel guilty about saying that I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think it was anything special. I had it with spaghetti and meat sauce as I thought that a tomato-based sauce and Barbera would be a good match. The spaghetti overpowered the wine and I was a little disappointed. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve tried it with a couple of other foods, and as of yet, haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t found a good combination. I do wish that I had tried it with the roasted turkey for Thanksgiving, because I think that would have been a good pairing.<\/p>\n<p>The style of the wine is light-bodied, almost elegant with no acid whatsoever. Which is strange because I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say that there is a lot of fruit either. It definitely needs to be paired with food, but I have not yet found the right combination. I have about a half of a bottle left to experiment with, so if I find something that makes it shine, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll update this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their web site lists an award winning \u00e2\u20ac\u01532003 Grand Reserve Barbera\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but my bottle doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say anything about it being a Grand Reserve so I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think that the bottle I had is the same thing.<\/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-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","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=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}