{"id":1297,"date":"2010-02-13T19:52:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T03:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2010-02-15T08:21:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T16:21:48","slug":"belmont-park-merlot-3-month-tasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2010\/02\/13\/belmont-park-merlot-3-month-tasting\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Belmont Park’ Merlot 3 Month Tasting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cal<\/p>\n

Since we were talking about our barrel wines while pruning<\/a> yesterday, I wanted to check the progress of the 2008 merlot<\/a>.\u00a0 It wasn’t as clear as I wanted when I bottled it, and so I wanted to check if it was OK, or if I needed to open them all and let the solids settle out longer before rebottling.\u00a0 It has been approximately 3 months since bottling;\u00a0 I did decant a little over an hour.\u00a0 Happily, the wine is mostly clear, some opaqueness, but I’m going to call it acceptable.\u00a0 I will not, however, be entering this one in any contests, it’s not clear enough for that.\u00a0 It’s a lovely dark ruby-garnet in color, with strong fruit-forward nose of candied cherry and loads of oak.\u00a0 Rich flavors of blackberry, brambles, raspberry, and spice.\u00a0 Definitely still very, very young, but has great promise!<\/p>\n

UPDATE:\u00a0 We opened a $50 bottle of 2005 bordeaux blend from Paso Robles for our Valentine’s day dinner, and it had a LOT more sediment than my merlot.\u00a0 Also, if I say so myself, I think my merlot tastes at least as good as the wine we opened.\u00a0\u00a0 So, not worried about the merlot any more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since we were talking about our barrel wines while pruning yesterday, I wanted to check the progress of the 2008 merlot.\u00a0 It wasn’t as clear as I wanted when I bottled it, and so I wanted to check if it was OK, or if I needed to open them all and let the solids settle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,32,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}