{"id":160,"date":"2006-11-06T11:11:21","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T18:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danthewineguy.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2006-11-17T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T20:22:19","slug":"bargain-priced-pepperwood-grove-makes-great-everyday-wines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Bargain-Priced Pepperwood Grove Makes Great Everyday Wines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally you may hear the phrase, \u201cit makes a great everyday wine,\u201d and if you\u2019re curious as to what this means, let me offer an explanation.<\/p>\n<p>As the name implies, an everyday wine should be something that falls within a reasonable price range so that you can enjoy it every day. This generally means somewhere in the $7 to $15 range because, let\u2019s face it, it\u2019s impractical and unaffordable for most of us to pop the cork on a $30 bottle of cabernet when we come home from work each evening.<\/p>\n<p>An everyday wine should also have at least some degree of quality. It doesn\u2019t have to be great; it just has to be good. In that sense, you want to be able to select a wine with reasonable certainty that you\u2019re going to enjoy it without having to sift through countless rows of bottles at the grocer of wine shop.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vinokeeno.com\/images\/2006\/pgm.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/>Typically, I\u2019m not fond of promoting domestic wineries that produce in mass quantities. But lately I\u2019ve relented and tried some wines from <strong>Pepperwood Grove<\/strong>, one of several labels from Don Sebastiani and Sons of Napa, California.<\/p>\n<p>The<strong> 2004 Merlot<\/strong> is lighter than most, but still carries some nice, bright cherry flavors, soft tannins and a touch of oak on the finish. And I really loved the <strong>Non-Vintage Old Wine Zinfandel<\/strong>, which is packed with dense, jammy flavors of blackberry and raspberry, followed by touches of spice. Also currently available are a 2004 Syrah, 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon and a 2005 Chardonnay.  <\/p>\n<p>All Pepperwood Grove wines are normally priced at around $8 to $9 a bottle, although I picked up mine a few weeks ago on sale at the Food Pavilion in Bellingham for an incredible $4.97 a bottle. With prices like that, it makes sense to give them a try and at least consider them as choices for tasty, reliable, everyday wines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally you may hear the phrase, \u201cit makes a great everyday wine,\u201d and if you\u2019re curious as to what this means, let me offer an explanation. As the name implies, an everyday wine should be something that falls within a reasonable price range so that you can enjoy it every day. This generally means somewhere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-bellingham-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","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=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}