{"id":87,"date":"2005-04-04T20:53:33","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T04:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2005-04-04T20:53:45","modified_gmt":"2005-04-05T04:53:45","slug":"2001-joseph-phelps-le-mistral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/2005\/04\/04\/2001-joseph-phelps-le-mistral\/","title":{"rendered":"2001 Joseph Phelps Le Mistral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2001 Joseph Phelps Le Mistral $18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpvwines.com\/jpvwines\/2001_monterey_lemistral.html\">Winemakers notes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Inspired by the great red wine blends of the Rh\u00c3\u00b4ne Valley\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c maybe, but I say the Rh\u00c3\u00b4ne Valley could learn a couple of things from this one.<\/p>\n<p>Check the wine maker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s notes. This one is a blend of six different varietals, each contributing to the big bold taste of this wine.<\/p>\n<p>I hate it when I come across a single bottle in a wine store where the little shelf card describes a wine in such a way that I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t resist trying it. My rule is to buy two bottles of something that I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tried before \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one for right now, and the other for later if it is really nice. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m guessing that I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see this one again \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a shame.<\/p>\n<p>This wine is a very dark purple. The aroma is a very concentrated black cherry. Nice fruit flavors, ripe but not too ripe, and the taste curve is perfectly balanced for my palette. There is a touch of spice, and the finish is very nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the great red wine blends of the Rh\u00c3\u00b4ne Valley<\/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-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}