{"id":143,"date":"2006-10-11T17:19:56","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T01:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2006-10-12T19:44:55","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T03:44:55","slug":"2001-delheim-vera-cruz-estate-stellenbosch-shiraz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/11\/2001-delheim-vera-cruz-estate-stellenbosch-shiraz\/","title":{"rendered":"2001 Delheim Vera Cruz Estate Stellenbosch Shiraz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that I bought this one last Christmas time in Wyoming of all places. It was wrapped in a very attractive tissue paper thus assuring that I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel bad paying for it.<\/p>\n<p>Appearance &#8211; very dark purple, I figure that there is no way that a wine that looks like this can be anything but outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>Nose &#8211; intensely sweet blackberry, a ton of smoke and a little black pepper.<\/p>\n<p>In the mouth &#8211; a lot of oak, probably American oak, but not as intense as most wines stored in American oak. This wine probably needs another 5 to 10 years on the shelf, but looking at the cork, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure it would last that long. The stains on the cork were between 1\/3 and 1\/2 the length. It might make it another 5 years. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure that I want to push it that long though.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the flavors include tobacco, blackberry, cigar box, dark chocolate and a little black pepper.<\/p>\n<p>The finish is nice and smooth but not as powerful as I had hoped. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get me wrong on that last comment; it does not wimp out on the finish.<\/p>\n<p>I think I paid $40 for this one. If you can get it for $35 or less, it is a bargain. If it costs $45 or more, skip it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that I bought this one last Christmas time in Wyoming of all places. It was wrapped in a very attractive tissue paper thus assuring that I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel bad paying for it. Appearance &#8211; very dark purple, I figure that there is no way that a wine that looks like this can be [&hellip;]<\/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-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","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=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}