{"id":15962,"date":"2018-09-20T13:05:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T18:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=15962"},"modified":"2018-09-20T13:05:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T18:05:49","slug":"gersing-cellars-shell-viognier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/20\/gersing-cellars-shell-viognier\/","title":{"rendered":"Gersing Cellars Shell Viognier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15963\" style=\"width: 158px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15963\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15963\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ViognierIMG_5653.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"288\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gersing Cellars Shell Viognier<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Late yesterday afternoon, after a day of preparing our gardens for fall, we decided to enjoy a glass of white wine on our recently renovated deck overlooking our small landscaped backyard. The Gersing Cellars Shell Viognjer 2017 was a perfect match for the backyard experience.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Viognier was a light yellow color. The aroma offered notes of floral and tropical fruit. The mouthfeel was velvety. The taste offered notes of citrus, pineapple and mango with a little rose petal and a bit of minerality. The finish had a long fruit taste.\u00a0The grapes for this Viognier were sourced from the Yakima Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The back label of the wine bottle explains the musical Shell name. Shell definition, &#8220;An open, two-note chord structure played on the piano by the left hand in accompanying oneself or another soloist. This wine-floral, citrusy, and mineral-driven &#8211; sings with the clear, pure harmony of a shell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gersingcellars.com\/\">Gersing Cellars<\/a> is located in Portland, the city\u2019s SE region. I also wrote about the <a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/31\/gersing-cellars-in-portland-produces-a-nebbiolo-wine\/\">Gersing Cellars Nebbiolo <\/a>in an earlier blog.<\/p>\n<p>Not mentioned in the first blog was that this urban winery offers wine enthusiasts a Jazz wine Club. Wine lovers can choose between the TWOs and FOURS wine clubs. According to the Gersing Cellars website:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>TWOS wine club members:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i> Receive <\/i><b><i>two<\/i><\/b><i> bottles each of three latest release wines, twice yearly (6 bottles in spring and 6 bottles in fall)<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i> 15% discount on club shipment wines<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i> 15% on any additional wines purchased at any time<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i> Invitation and preferential pricing to Gersing Cellars release parties and special events for member and <\/i><b><i>1<\/i><\/b><i> guest<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i> Pre-release access to exclusive wines, such as small production wines, library wines, and large format wines.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i> Preferential pricing for wine educational events for member and 1 guest<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>FOURS Wine Club members:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Receive four bottles each of three latest releases, twice yearly (12 bottles in spring and 12 bottles in fall)<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i> 20% discount on club shipment wines<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i> 20% on any additional wines purchased at any time<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i> Invitation and preferential pricing to Gersing Cellars release parties and special events for member and 3 guests<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i> Pre-release access to exclusive wines, such as small production wines, library wines, and large format wines.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i> Complimentary access to wine educational events for member and 1 guest<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i> Yearly tasting with the winemaker<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have the opportunity when visiting Portloand, Oregon be sure to visit SE Wine Collective Tasting Bar to taste the wines of Gersing Cellars.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<br \/>\nKathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Gersing Cellars Shell Viognier\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=15962\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When visiting Portland, Oregon be sure to discover the wines from Gersing Cellars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[4001,975,2339,817,98],"class_list":["post-15962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-gersing-cellars","tag-portland","tag-urban-winery","tag-viognier","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962","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=15962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15965,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions\/15965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}