{"id":1483,"date":"2010-06-20T10:17:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T18:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2010-06-20T10:21:23","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T18:21:23","slug":"best-of-class-award-and-silver-medal-at-sd-county-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2010\/06\/20\/best-of-class-award-and-silver-medal-at-sd-county-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of Class Award and Silver Medal at SD County Fair!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1484\" title=\"2010 Arg Trio SD Fair Best of Class\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-Arg-Trio-SD-Fair-Best-of-Class.jpg\" alt=\"2010 Arg Trio SD Fair Best of Class\" width=\"361\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-Arg-Trio-SD-Fair-Best-of-Class.jpg 1363w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-Arg-Trio-SD-Fair-Best-of-Class-288x300.jpg 288w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-Arg-Trio-SD-Fair-Best-of-Class-985x1024.jpg 985w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/>I entered two wines into the San Diego County Fair Homemade wine competition: <a href=\"\/index.php\/2009\/07\/19\/oi-that%E2%80%99s-a-lot-of-wine\/\">&#8216;Bahia Belle&#8217; Bordeaux Blend<\/a>, a 50\/50 blend of cabernet sauvignon and merlot made from fresh grapes, and <a href=\"\/index.php\/2009\/03\/23\/starting-argentinian-trio-reserve-kit\/\">&#8216;Sail Bay Sundown&#8217; RJ Spagnols Argentinian Trio Limited Release white blend<\/a>.\u00a0 One of my <a href=\"\/index.php\/2009\/10\/07\/a-new-addition-to-the-family\/\">fellow winemakers<\/a> also entered the same cabernet sauvignon and merlot as 100% varietals.\u00a0 Interestingly, his merlot won a Gold medal and the Cab won a bronze, but my blend did not win any awards.\u00a0 However, the white kit blend did win a Silver medal and Best in Class!\u00a0 So, although the results for the red wines is a bit baffling, it&#8217;s very exciting to win these awards for my RJ Spagnols wine!<\/p>\n<p>My tasting notes for this wine:\u00a0 Lovely nose of hay, roses, and spice. Flavors have already come together  nicely. Crisp, minerally taste of crunchy apples, persimmon, and  toasted spice. Really nice!<\/p>\n<p>The judging notes included: &#8220;Enjoyable, unique combination of flavors.&#8221; &#8220;Nice complex balanced flavors.&#8221; &#8220;Oak, fruit, dry&#8221; &#8212; this last comment is very interesting;\u00a0 several other winemakers at the award ceremony commented on the good oak character in this wine, but there was no oak in this wine!\u00a0 This wine does have a very nice, creamy smoothness and hints of vanilla reminiscent of oak character.\u00a0 Either way, it is a lovely, tasty wine, and I&#8217;m very glad it was recognized for its excellence.<\/p>\n<p>As for the &#8216;Bahia Belle&#8217; Blend, my average score was pretty decent, and so I think this wine <em>almost<\/em> got a bronze.\u00a0 Personally, I think this wine it too young, but we thought it would be interesting to enter several versions of our first fresh grape wines.\u00a0 I think this one will fare much better next year, or maybe even the year after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I entered two wines into the San Diego County Fair Homemade wine competition: &#8216;Bahia Belle&#8217; Bordeaux Blend, a 50\/50 blend of cabernet sauvignon and merlot made from fresh grapes, and &#8216;Sail Bay Sundown&#8217; RJ Spagnols Argentinian Trio Limited Release white blend.\u00a0 One of my fellow winemakers also entered the same cabernet sauvignon and merlot as [&hellip;]<\/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":[42,4,32,18,27,30,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483"}],"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=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}