{"id":70,"date":"2005-11-07T11:13:41","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T18:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danthewineguy.com\/?p=70"},"modified":"2005-11-15T11:17:46","modified_gmt":"2005-11-15T18:17:46","slug":"annabella-good-reasonably-priced-wines-from-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Annabella:  Good, Reasonably Priced Wines from California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Peterson, owner of Bellingham\u2019s The Vines wine shop and Du Jour Bistro recently recommended that I try a couple of new <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelpozzanwinery.com\/images\/w_anna.gif\" alt=\"null\" \/>arrivals he enjoyed from California.  He thought they tasted as good as wines that were twice the price \u2013 and he was right.<\/p>\n<p>The wines were from Annabella, one of three labels produced by Michael Pozzan Winery from California\u2019s Napa Valley.  Pozzan has a pedigree from winemaking families that extends back to Italy\u2019s Piedmont region since the mid-1800s.  He founded his own winery in Oakville, California in 1991, which he currently owns and operates.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my notes on the two wines I sampled:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Annabella 2004 Chardonnay <\/strong>(about $9) \u2013 A delicious, medium bodied white with lots of baked apple flavors and a hint of spice.  The finish is accentuated by just the right amount of toasty oak.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Annabella 2002 Merlot<\/strong> (about $12) \u2013 Another tasty wine with a little bit of blackberry, a little bit of plum and a touch of black pepper.  Soft tannins give the wine an elegant finish.<\/p>\n<p>The Vines is located at 1319 Cornwall Avenue.  More information: Phone 714-1161.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Peterson, owner of Bellingham\u2019s The Vines wine shop and Du Jour Bistro recently recommended that I try a couple of new arrivals he enjoyed from California. He thought they tasted as good as wines that were twice the price \u2013 and he was right. The wines were from Annabella, one of three labels produced [&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-70","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\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}