{"id":960,"date":"2013-06-30T16:35:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T23:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danthewineguy.com\/?p=960"},"modified":"2013-07-01T16:53:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T23:53:48","slug":"jj-vintners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"First Release Syrah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jandjvintners.com\/remotemodules\/product_presentation\/19100704\/120x120_8caab594f070fed8f727b4b0fa374a25.jpeg?rand=1372722296\" alt=\"null\" \/><strong>J&#038;J Vintners First Release Syrah<\/strong> (about $22) &#8211; Sourced from Yakima Valley grapes, the inagural release from this Milton Freewater, Oregon winery offers plenty of dark plum and cherry fruits up front, a dash of black pepper and an underlying touch of smokiness on the finish. <\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t carry the brighter notes of acidity some wine enthusiasts might desire, but if you like a Syrah with more of a soft, light finish, this is the wine for you. There&#8217;s also a &#8220;bright-side&#8221; corollary worth noting: it doesn&#8217;t carry the hefty price tag you&#8217;re likely to find on other Syrahs produced in the Walla Walla Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The J&#038;J behind J&#038;J Vintners are Walla Walla born and bred owners\/winemakers Jeremy Petty and Jody Middleton. For additional wines and ordering visit www.jandjvintners.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J&#038;J Vintners First Release Syrah (about $22) &#8211; Sourced from Yakima Valley grapes, the inagural release from this Milton Freewater, Oregon winery offers plenty of dark plum and cherry fruits up front, a dash of black pepper and an underlying touch of smokiness on the finish. This doesn&#8217;t carry the brighter notes of acidity some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syrah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","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=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}