{"id":3457,"date":"2011-01-26T09:52:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T14:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2011-01-26T09:52:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T14:52:26","slug":"2006-zinfandel-by-chiarito-vineyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/26\/2006-zinfandel-by-chiarito-vineyard\/","title":{"rendered":"2006 Zinfandel by Chiarito Vineyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about a wine to pair with last night\u2019s lasagna, I decided on a Zinfandel. At first I was going to select one of my <a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/19\/the-accidental-zin\/ \" target=\"_blank\">accidental Zins<\/a>, however since I had only two bottles left, I opted for a 2006 Zinfandel from Chiarito Vineyard. Someone gave us a bottle of this wine on our writing trip to wineries in Mendocino County, California. We were not able to visit Chiarito Vineyard. The wine had an intense aroma of cherries and spice. The cherries and spices continued on the taste and finish. There were mild tannins and the wine matched well with the lasagna.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chiaritovineyard.com\" target=\"_blank\">Chiarito Vineyard<\/a> is an artisan winery; only 400 cases of the 2006 Zinfandel were produced. The vineyard is located south of Talmage and east of Ukiah. The two-acre vineyard was planted almost twenty years ago. John Chiarito, winemaker, follows the practices of \u201ceverything is done by hand.\u201d This includes the vineyard where, according to their website, John plows his vineyard and follows dry farming techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nTerry<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"2006 Zinfandel by Chiarito Vineyard\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=3457\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about a wine to pair with last night\u2019s lasagna, I decided on a Zinfandel. At first I was going to select one of my accidental Zins, however since I had only two bottles left, I opted for a 2006 Zinfandel from Chiarito Vineyard. Someone gave us a bottle of this wine on our writing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[1894,98,137],"class_list":["post-3457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-and-food","tag-chiarito-vineyard","tag-wine","tag-zinfandel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457","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=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3459,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions\/3459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}