{"id":415,"date":"2007-08-13T19:58:25","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T19:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2007-08-13T19:58:25","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T19:58:25","slug":"2005-zarafa-pinotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2007\/08\/2005-zarafa-pinotage\/","title":{"rendered":"2005 Zarafa Pinotage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zarafa.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/zarafa.jpg\" width=\"73\" height=\"219\" align=left><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" align=left src=\"\/img\/dot.gif\" width=11 height=219>This is the first time I&#8217;ve ever tried a Pinotage so it&#8217;s difficult for me to know how Zarafa&#8217;s compares to other wines of the same varietals.  For me, it was a complete different experience in wine.  I can&#8217;t quite describe the sharp flavor with which its greets you.  Wood? Dark chocolate? Dark chocolate covered wood?  I read somewhere that it smells like band-aids and I have to say I agree, but the taste has me dumbfounded.  Following that is a medium-to-light body, which disappears into nothingness.  Am I drinking water?  It does have a lingering flavor, somewhat sweet and plumy.  But very earthy and leathery.  Yes, I think that&#8217;s the right word, leathery.<br \/>\nIn all, it was a complete new experience in wine for me &#8211; though it did remind me of certain Argentine table wines. It&#8217;s not an experience that I enjoyed tremendously, but it was OK and I will finish the bottle.  Mike, OTOH, didn&#8217;t like it at all.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first time I&#8217;ve ever tried a Pinotage so it&#8217;s difficult for me to know how Zarafa&#8217;s compares to other wines of the same varietals. For me, it was a complete different experience in wine. I can&#8217;t quite describe the sharp flavor with which its greets you. Wood? Dark chocolate? Dark chocolate covered [&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-415","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\/415","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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}