{"id":48,"date":"2008-09-07T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/?p=48"},"modified":"2011-06-20T20:49:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T01:49:36","slug":"chateauneuf-du-pape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/2008\/09\/chateauneuf-du-pape\/","title":{"rendered":"Chateauneuf-du-Pape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_kufElHa-EkM\/SMRWcffl4BI\/AAAAAAAAA38\/3Yk6_RYE0wE\/s1600-h\/IMG_5680.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243410913656430610\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_kufElHa-EkM\/SMRWcffl4BI\/AAAAAAAAA38\/3Yk6_RYE0wE\/s320\/IMG_5680.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>2006 Alain Corcia Chateauneuf-du-Pape &#8220;Cr\u00e8me de la Cr\u00e8me&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/gregcook\/aws\/\">AWS chapter<\/a> will be tasting Rhone wines next week and I picked up this Chat du Pape for the tasting. I thought I would give it a go before the get together to see how it is.<\/p>\n<p>The color is a gorgeous deep ruby red with purple tinges. Hints of youngness are apparent in the color. It is dark and you cannot see through it.<\/p>\n<p>The nose is unusual with some very subtle hints of red cherries mixed with herbs, vegetables and eucalyptus.<\/p>\n<p>On the palate there is a nice body and heaviness that wraps around the mouth. Very complex with flavors of mint, red raspberries and green peppers. It has a nice balance of tannin and acidity. It is nicely structured and rock solid. This is a delicious wine that should improve over the next 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>I would rate it 90 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2006 Alain Corcia Chateauneuf-du-Pape &#8220;Cr\u00e8me de la Cr\u00e8me&#8221; Our AWS chapter will be tasting Rhone wines next week and I picked up this Chat du Pape for the tasting. I thought I would give it a go before the get together to see how it is. The color is a gorgeous deep ruby red with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,146],"tags":[119,63,81,65],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-red-blend","tag-alain-corcia","tag-chateauneuf-du-pape","tag-france","tag-rhone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","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=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}