{"id":1452,"date":"2009-06-09T08:41:36","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T13:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2009-06-09T08:41:36","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T13:41:36","slug":"stuart-cellars-long-valley-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/09\/stuart-cellars-long-valley-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuart Cellars Long Valley Red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Last night we were both too tired to cook and too tired to eat out. It had been a long, frustrating day. We\u2019ve all had those kinds of days. We had a couple of those thick juicy hamburgers that we had purchased at Costco. I quickly washed two potatoes and used the microwave to cook them. A quick salad was tossed together and then we added a bottle of wine from our wine cellar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The wine was produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/california\/stuart.php\">Stuart Cellars<\/a> in Temecula, California. It was a 2004 Temecula Valley Long Valley Red, Limited Estate Reserve. This wine is a Meritage blend of five Bordeaux grapes &#8211; Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Malbec It is unfiltered with an alcohol level of 14.1 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">After Terry tasted the wine, he commented, \u201cThis is the kind of wine I want to make.\u201d We are making a barrel of Cabernet Sauvignon during October and have been searching for examples of wines similar to what we want to craft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This red\/purple opaque wine paired perfectly with the grilled hamburgers. The bouquet was of dark fruit jam with a very fruity, complex taste. The wine finished with mild tannins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">If you are wondering about the name Long Valley, according to the back label the Long Valley trail was used by settlers to cross the desert into California. I love to read the back labels of wine bottles. Numerous times one can obtain interesting information about the wine, winery, vineyard or tasting notes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Cheers, Kathy<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Stuart Cellars Long Valley Red\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=1452\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night we were both too tired to cook and too tired to eat out. It had been a long, frustrating day. We\u2019ve all had those kinds of days. We had a couple of those thick juicy hamburgers that we had purchased at Costco. I quickly washed two potatoes and used the microwave to cook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[221,14,850,851,849,641],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-and-food","tag-cabernet-franc","tag-cabernet-sauvignon","tag-long-valley-red","tag-meritage","tag-stuart-cellars","tag-temecula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6370,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions\/6370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}