{"id":412,"date":"2007-08-12T13:40:07","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T13:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2007-08-12T13:40:07","modified_gmt":"2007-08-12T13:40:07","slug":"2005-black-mountain-malbec-watsons-grove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2007\/08\/2005-black-mountain-malbec-watsons-grove\/","title":{"rendered":"2005 Black Mountain Malbec, Watson&#8217;s Grove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had read that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/int\/brazil\/feijoada.html\">feijoada<\/a>, a famous Brazilian sausage and black bean stew, went very well with Argentinian Malbec.  Alas, I didn&#8217;t read that until the last moment, and when I went to serve it the only Malbec I recalled having at home was the 2005 Black Mountain Malbec, Watson&#8217;s Grove &#8211; a California wine. (Later I remembered that I had a Malbec I had brought with me from Argentina a few years ago).  It&#8217;s a cheap wine (about $6), but it seemed like the best option for dinner.<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t bad.  It had a medium body &#8211; as Malbec&#8217;s tend to do &#8211; and a fruity finish.  It improved magnificently with dinner, bring forward hints of oak and black cherry.  All in all, a good but not great, table wine.  But whoever said feijoada and Malbec went well together, was right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had read that feijoada, a famous Brazilian sausage and black bean stew, went very well with Argentinian Malbec. Alas, I didn&#8217;t read that until the last moment, and when I went to serve it the only Malbec I recalled having at home was the 2005 Black Mountain Malbec, Watson&#8217;s Grove &#8211; a California wine. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}