{"id":2317,"date":"2015-06-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/04\/peirano-estate-vineyard-2011-six-clones-merlot-california\/"},"modified":"2015-06-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T12:00:00","slug":"peirano-estate-vineyard-2011-six-clones-merlot-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/04\/peirano-estate-vineyard-2011-six-clones-merlot-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Peirano Estate Vineyard 2011 &#8220;Six Clones&#8221; Merlot (California)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2316\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/PeiranoMerlot2011a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" \/>(March 9, 2015) &#8230;<\/strong> <\/em>On my first foray out on the streets of Philadelphia (cue the Springsteen music) I found the wine store with barely a hiccup and I easily dropped $80 on a basket of wines I could not get on my side of the 49th (parallel) &#8230; The first one I tried was by Peirano Estate, part of their Heritage Collection, from California. This Merlot was pretty much what I would expect from a Cali-Merlot: lots of soft, silky fruit on a smooth palate. Aromas spoke of chocolate and sweet plum with a touch of blueberry; palate was that silky smooth plum, cherry and blueberry fruit. A pretty good first night wine, nothing too taxing, but tomorrow I&#8217;m expecting better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(March 9, 2015) &#8230; On my first foray out on the streets of Philadelphia (cue the Springsteen music) I found the wine store with barely a hiccup and I easily dropped $80 on a basket of wines I could not get on my side of the 49th (parallel) &#8230; The first one I tried was [&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-2317","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\/2317","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=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}