{"id":627,"date":"2008-12-21T09:36:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T09:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2008-12-21T09:36:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T09:36:25","slug":"1999-hess-collection-reserve-cabernet-sauvignon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2008\/12\/1999-hess-collection-reserve-cabernet-sauvignon\/","title":{"rendered":"1999 Hess Collection Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have seldom liked a wine more than the <B>1999 Hess Collection Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon<\/B>.  I served it last night with Hannukah dinner (though as a second wine, after people had finished eating dinner) to great acclaim.  The wine was wonderfully balanced, with a rich flavor.  There were hints of black berries and just the right amount of oak (I&#8217;m big on oaky wines, which this one was not, but I did appreciate what a measured amount of it could add to a wine).  It had medium tannins &#8211; even though it&#8217;s an 8 year old wine, they weren&#8217;t close to overwhelming it.  I served the wine a little bit chilled (just because it&#8217;s winter, and the temperature of my house is not that warm), and I think it was perfect.<br \/>\nI won the wine at a political fundraiser raffle (I can&#8217;t believe someone actually donated it!), but I think it&#8217;s well worth the $65 price it <a href=\"http:\/\/carpita.snooth.com\/wine\/hess-collection-cabernet-sauvignon-reserve-1999\/\">supposedly has<\/a>.  I&#8217;m really glad that I was able to share it with friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have seldom liked a wine more than the 1999 Hess Collection Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon. I served it last night with Hannukah dinner (though as a second wine, after people had finished eating dinner) to great acclaim. The wine was wonderfully balanced, with a rich flavor. There were hints of black berries and just the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","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\/627","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}