{"id":2877,"date":"2016-08-03T07:38:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T07:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/03\/watchdog-rock-2012-merlot-washington\/"},"modified":"2016-08-03T07:38:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T07:38:55","slug":"watchdog-rock-2012-merlot-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/03\/watchdog-rock-2012-merlot-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog Rock 2012 Merlot (Washington)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wf_caption\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 7px; display: inline-table;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2876\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Watchdog_2012Merlot.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"float: right;\" width=\"150\" height=\"245\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>(December 19, 2015) &#8230;<\/strong><\/em> Living on the Eastern side of the country (and a different country at that) means Washington State wines are few and far between, after all they make only about 4% of the total wine production in the US &#8211; and surprisingly that still puts them in the top 5.&nbsp; I picked this bottle up at a Meijer in Michigan (think Wal-Mart but classier), I was just looking for something different that I couldn&#8217;t get at home; what I got was a pretty simple wine with plum, blueberry, smoky-vanilla, and black cherry; though I was a little taken aback to find it was a touch grittier than expected on the finish. Decent bottle for a simple evening.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(December 19, 2015) &#8230; Living on the Eastern side of the country (and a different country at that) means Washington State wines are few and far between, after all they make only about 4% of the total wine production in the US &#8211; and surprisingly that still puts them in the top 5.&nbsp; I picked [&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-2877","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\/2877","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=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}