{"id":2059,"date":"2010-03-17T07:23:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T12:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2010-03-17T07:23:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T12:23:32","slug":"three-impressive-wines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/17\/three-impressive-wines\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Impressive Wines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had an opportunity to have a wonderful dining experience with family in Michigan. The wine list was impressive with a 1999 Chauteau Lafleur Pomerol, 2003 Shafer Hillside Select and a 2004 Dominus.<\/p>\n<p>We began dinner with the Pomeral. The light bodied wine had an aroma and taste of black cherries, mineral, and licorice. The tannin and fruity finish paired well with a variety of appetisers. We wanted a heavier more tannic wine for our dinner. The Shafer Hillside Select hit its mark with a black fruit (black cherry, black raspberries) aroma and taste. It offered caramel and licorice neuances. The finish offered heavy tannins and fruit.<\/p>\n<p>The 2004 Dominus by Dominus Estate Corporation, California is a Bordeaux-style blend of 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Cabernet Franc and 7% Petit Verdot. The aroma and taste offered black fruit especially black berries and black currant. There were licorice neuances. Mild tannins finished with a fruity aftertaste. We drank this wine after dinner and as such it was a good epilogue to our dining experience.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Three Impressive Wines\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=2059\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had an opportunity to have a wonderful dining experience with family in Michigan. The wine list was impressive with a 1999 Chauteau Lafleur Pomerol, 2003 Shafer Hillside Select and a 2004 Dominus. We began dinner with the Pomeral. The light bodied wine had an aroma and taste of black cherries, mineral, and licorice. The tannin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[1154,1152,1153,98],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-taste-of-wine","tag-chateau-lafleur-pomerol","tag-dominus","tag-shafer-hillside-select","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2061,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}