{"id":1547,"date":"2009-07-03T08:48:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T13:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2009-07-03T08:48:28","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T13:48:28","slug":"buddys-select-a-texas-blend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/03\/buddys-select-a-texas-blend\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddy&#8217;s Select, a Texas Blend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Last night I enjoyed a glass of Buddy\u2019s Select produced by Lost Creek Vineyard. Buddy\u2019s Select is a blend of 34 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, 33 percent Merlot and 33 percent Shiraz with an alcohol level of 13.6 percent. The result is a wine with a deep opaque purple color. The aroma and taste was of dark fruit like black raspberries and jammy. The wine was full bodied with mild tannins on the finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The label on the wine is a photo of Buddy. Buddy was an orphaned dog and David Brinkman, owner and winemaker at Lost Creek Vineyard, adopted Buddy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We paired Buddy&#8217;s Select with a grilled hamburger, mixed green salad and baked potato. It was a very nice pairing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Lost Creek Vineyard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Lost Creek Vineyard located in Sunrise Beach, Texas is a destination site with an elegant restaurant, sushi bar and amphitheatre. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/texas\/lostcreek.php\">review<\/a> on Wine Trail Traveler and discover the devastating flood the winery suffered in 2007 and how the winery has made a tremendous comeback.<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Buddy's Select, a Texas Blend\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=1547\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I enjoyed a glass of Buddy\u2019s Select produced by Lost Creek Vineyard. Buddy\u2019s Select is a blend of 34 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, 33 percent Merlot and 33 percent Shiraz with an alcohol level of 13.6 percent. The result is a wine with a deep opaque purple color. The aroma and taste was of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[898,14,899,247,59,80,765,98],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-taste-of-wine","tag-buddys-select","tag-cabernet-sauvignon","tag-lost-creek-vineyard","tag-merlot","tag-paired","tag-shiraz","tag-texas","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","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=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}