{"id":118,"date":"2006-07-15T09:48:56","date_gmt":"2006-07-15T16:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danthewineguy.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2006-07-21T13:31:58","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T20:31:58","slug":"merlot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Merlot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Covey Run 2003<\/strong> (about $9):  If you&#8217;re on a budget and still need a nice Washington Merlot to serve to a large group consider this one from Covey Run.  The wine displays some good dark berry and cherry flavors with a bit of a smoky finish with touches of oak.<\/p>\n<p><strong>San Juan Vineyards 2003<\/strong> (about $14):  This Yakima Valley Merlot has some nice cherry and plum flavors with ample tannins to provide structure and a hint of toasty oak on the finish.  Another well-priced winner from the island winery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covey Run 2003 (about $9): If you&#8217;re on a budget and still need a nice Washington Merlot to serve to a large group consider this one from Covey Run. The wine displays some good dark berry and cherry flavors with a bit of a smoky finish with touches of oak. San Juan Vineyards 2003 (about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-washington-wines","category-syrah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}