{"id":193,"date":"2011-07-02T12:01:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T17:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/?p=193"},"modified":"2011-07-02T12:01:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T17:01:24","slug":"rombauer-over-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/2011\/07\/rombauer-over-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Rombauer &#8211; over the top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_1571.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-194\" title=\"IMG_1571\" src=\"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_1571.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_1571.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_1571-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Rombauer used to make awesome zins in the early 90&#8217;s. Now they are over ripe and over extracted. This is so typical of California zins these days. The once present black pepper is no where to be found. It is a fruit bomb verging on a dessert wine. Some love this newer style zin. Not me. I pine for the glory days when they were spicy, not too fruity and complex as hell. Bring back my favorite grape. It&#8217;s not expressed in this bottle. That being said, for today&#8217;s zins, this is one of the better ones. There is structure and interesting flavors. It&#8217;s just way too sweet for my tastes. I would give this one 85 points for the memories of Rombauer zins of the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rombauer used to make awesome zins in the early 90&#8217;s. Now they are over ripe and over extracted. This is so typical of California zins these days. The once present black pepper is no where to be found. It is a fruit bomb verging on a dessert wine. Some love this newer style zin. Not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,13],"tags":[57,59,152],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-america","category-zinfandel","tag-california","tag-napa","tag-rombauer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}