{"id":186,"date":"2007-02-19T11:47:58","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T18:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danthewineguy.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2009-02-22T12:06:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T19:06:26","slug":"second-label-stonecap-wines-makes-an-awesome-affordable-washington-syrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Second Label Stonecap Wines Makes an Awesome, Affordable Washington Syrah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several wineries bottle their wines as something that\u2019s referred to as a \u201csecond label.\u201d A second label might showcase grapes from a separate vineyard but more commonly offers consumers a line of wines in a different price range \u2013 usually lower \u2013 than the winery\u2019s primary label.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gooseridge.com\/stonecap\/images\/home_header.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/>You shouldn\u2019t assume, however, that you\u2019ll be sacrificing a degree of quality by purchasing second label wines. A case in point is <strong>Stonecap Wines<\/strong>, a second label for Goose Ridge Vineyards in Kennewick. Goose Ridge has ties to winemaker guru Charlie Hoppes and Stonecap is an offshoot of this critically acclaimed Columbia Valley winery that offers wines a good $5 to $10 a bottle less than the Goose Ridge line.<\/p>\n<p>I recently tried the <strong>Stonecap 2004 Syrah<\/strong>. This tasty Northwest wine has a beautiful blueberry aroma, smoky berry and plum flavors and a nice dash of acidity to balance everything out. Throw in the screw cap and about a $12 to $14 price tag (I picked up mine on sale at the Barkley Haggen for $9.99) and you\u2019ve got an unostentatious, hidden gem of a wine.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Charles of Compass Wines in Anacortes selected this Syrah as his 2006 Washington wine of the year; a noteworthy honor from someone who sells a lot of wine.  Charles commented that, \u201cThis wine puts to rest the argument that great Washington wines need to be expensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other Stonecap current releases include a 2004 Chardonnay and a 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon \u2013 both retailing for around the same $12 to $14 a bottle price range.  For more information visit www.stonecapwines.com.<!--604f20a0da355ec66b249e0b8eead756--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several wineries bottle their wines as something that\u2019s referred to as a \u201csecond label.\u201d A second label might showcase grapes from a separate vineyard but more commonly offers consumers a line of wines in a different price range \u2013 usually lower \u2013 than the winery\u2019s primary label. You shouldn\u2019t assume, however, that you\u2019ll be sacrificing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-bellingham-herald","category-syrah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","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=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}