{"id":1994,"date":"2011-02-16T19:04:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2011-02-17T06:34:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T14:34:51","slug":"first-tasting-of-2009-embarcadero-merlot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2011\/02\/16\/first-tasting-of-2009-embarcadero-merlot\/","title":{"rendered":"First Tasting of 2009 &#8216;Embarcadero&#8217; Merlot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realized I haven&#8217;t tried my &#8216;Embarcadero&#8217; Dry Creek Valley Merlot yet.\u00a0 This wine is 100% <a href=\"\/index.php\/2008\/09\/21\/starting-fermentation-on-merlot-grapes\/\">merlot &#8220;B&#8221;<\/a> (fermented with Pasteur red yeast) aged with french oak (heavy + medium toast, cubes in carboy) with incomplete <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/malolactic-fermentation-mlf-malo\/\">MLF<\/a> but treated with <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/lysozyme\/\">lysozyme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This wine has been in the bottle 18 months.\u00a0 I tasted it in a Spiegelau Bordeaux glass, first without any decanting or aeration.\u00a0 It is very sweet and spicy on the nose, with rich brambles and berries.\u00a0 Very clear garnet in color.\u00a0 Sweet on the tongue as well, with brown sugar, cedar, spice box, cassis, and currant with hint of fig and menthol on the long finish.\u00a0 Not quite balanced, very heavy on the spice and sweetness.<\/p>\n<p>Retasted after aeration with Vinturi.\u00a0 Still spicy and sweet on the nose, though a bit mellowed.\u00a0 Flavors still unbalanced though more mellowed.\u00a0 This wine is tasting very similar to the <a href=\"\/index.php\/2010\/09\/01\/belmont-park-merlot-1-year-tasting\/\">&#8216;Belmont Park&#8217; <\/a>version of this merlot, heavily sweet and out of balance;\u00a0 I think a lot of the sweetness might be due to too much oak.\u00a0 Hopefully these 2009 merlots are going through a phase and will come out of it in a few months.\u00a0 Right now, not tasting their best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realized I haven&#8217;t tried my &#8216;Embarcadero&#8217; Dry Creek Valley Merlot yet.\u00a0 This wine is 100% merlot &#8220;B&#8221; (fermented with Pasteur red yeast) aged with french oak (heavy + medium toast, cubes in carboy) with incomplete MLF but treated with lysozyme. This wine has been in the bottle 18 months.\u00a0 I tasted it in a [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994"}],"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=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1997,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}