{"id":826,"date":"2009-11-29T21:18:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T21:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=826"},"modified":"2009-11-29T21:18:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T21:18:22","slug":"bink-merlot-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2009\/11\/bink-merlot-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Bink Merlot 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bink Merlot 2003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/bingmerlot.jpg\" width=\"195\" height=\"280\" align=left><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/dot.gif\" align=left width=11 height=280>I &#8220;won&#8221; this wine at a silent auction a couple of years ago (along with three other Bink bottles) and decided to bring it to Thanksgiving dinner.  Most of the other wines I have are cabs, and I thought they&#8217;d be both too hearty for the turkey and the other guests.  It was a good choice.  The wine was very good, hearty yet crisp, well balanced, perhaps with a little bit too much alcohol for my taste (but that may have been the result of less than optimal storing conditions) but all in all a mature and refined wine.  It went well with the turkey and by itself, and definitely called for a second glass.  I&#8217;m looking forward to enjoying the other Bink wines I still have around.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I &#8220;won&#8221; this wine at a silent auction a couple of years ago (along with three other Bink bottles) and decided to bring it to Thanksgiving dinner. Most of the other wines I have are cabs, and I thought they&#8217;d be both too hearty for the turkey and the other guests. It was a good [&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-826","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\/826","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=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}