{"id":1228,"date":"2013-03-13T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/13\/march-12-2013-rh-phillips-2003-toasted-head-merlot-california\/"},"modified":"2013-03-13T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T05:00:00","slug":"march-12-2013-rh-phillips-2003-toasted-head-merlot-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/13\/march-12-2013-rh-phillips-2003-toasted-head-merlot-california\/","title":{"rendered":"March 12, 2013: RH Phillips 2001 Toasted Head Merlot (California)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this week I posted a piece for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawalife.com\/2013\/03\/through-all-the-bad-mouthing-merlot-still-makes-a-great-wine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Life about California Merlot<\/a> which garnered a short conversation on Facebook between someone who loves Merlot and someone who finds it to be a vile weed (but a good blending grape).\u00a0 I would have to say that lately I have tasted quite a few really good Merlots made in Ontario from the 2010 vintage &#8211; but that really has nothing to do with this wine &#8230; <br \/>(<a href=\"http:\/\/michaelpinkusgg.blogspot.ca\/2013\/03\/rh-phillips-2003-toasted-head-merlot.html\" target=\"_blank\">to read more &#8211; click here<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Earlier this week I posted a piece for Ottawa Life about California Merlot which garnered a short conversation on Facebook between someone who loves Merlot and someone who finds it to be a vile weed (but a good blending grape).\u00a0 I would have to say that lately I have tasted quite a few really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-drinking-tonight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}