{"id":45,"date":"2008-06-11T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/?p=45"},"modified":"2011-06-20T20:57:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T01:57:26","slug":"languedoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/2008\/06\/languedoc\/","title":{"rendered":"Languedoc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_kufElHa-EkM\/SEyTy2yJ26I\/AAAAAAAAAt0\/AQo4XHnLjoU\/s1600-h\/IMG_3400.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_kufElHa-EkM\/SEyTy2yJ26I\/AAAAAAAAAt0\/AQo4XHnLjoU\/s320\/IMG_3400.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209701370869439394\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>2003 Mas de la Barben syrah blend from Languedoc. This was a bit of a disappointment. I expected better from this wine. I could tell straight away when I poured it in the glass that it would not live up to expectations. It had a red brick color that was a little on the light side. The nose was vegetative with spice and a strange chemical component. Someone described insecticide for this wine and I think it does remind me of an ant spry we used to use. It was funky on the palate as well with barnyard and leather flavors. It had a good acidity and a pretty nice up front attack but the good flavors disappeared rather quickly leaving you with the taste like licking a saddle. Certainly an unusual wine. It is just ok. I don&#8217;t think I would buy it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2003 Mas de la Barben syrah blend from Languedoc. This was a bit of a disappointment. I expected better from this wine. I could tell straight away when I poured it in the glass that it would not live up to expectations. It had a red brick color that was a little on the light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,16,78],"tags":[81,115],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-shiraz","category-syrah","tag-france","tag-languedoc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}