{"id":42,"date":"2003-03-31T17:28:25","date_gmt":"2003-03-31T22:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardyoo.com\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2003-03-31T17:28:25","modified_gmt":"2003-03-31T22:28:25","slug":"bargain-wines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2003\/03\/31\/bargain-wines\/","title":{"rendered":"Bargain Wines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My high-school buddy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/gallery\/album35\/116_1617_IMG\">Kevin<\/a>, and his wife, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/gallery\/album78\/103_0339_IMG\">Danna<\/a>, have been experimenting with some new wines&#8230; lots of them are pretty inexpensive &#8211; including a 5 dollar bottle (yikes).<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nLooking for a bagin on wine check out the following<br \/>\n(prices from Spec&#8217;s):<\/p>\n<p>LESEC COTES DU RHONE RASTEAU         750ML   $14.49<br \/>\n1999 [FRANCE]<br \/>\n(We love this wine!! It taste like a $40 or $50 bottle<br \/>\nof wine.  This wine has a great blend of grapes that<br \/>\nreally complement each other including Shiraz.  The<br \/>\n1999 and 2000 years are well worth a try.  The 2001<br \/>\nwhich has recently came out is about $10 more.)<\/p>\n<p>MC PHERSON SEMILLON\/CHARDONNAY       750ML   $4.83<br \/>\n1999 [AUSTRALIA]<br \/>\n(we tried this one and it was really good.  It is<br \/>\nunoaked so you don&#8217;t have that extreme oaky flavor<br \/>\nover powering the grape as in most cheaper American<br \/>\nmade Chardonnay.  It was dry enought to drink with a<br \/>\nmeal but not to dry because it has another grape<br \/>\n(Semillon) mixed with it.  For $5 dollars it is well<br \/>\nworth a try.  We also got a couple of the following<br \/>\nthat we have yet to try)<\/p>\n<p>MC PHERSON CHARDONNAY 2000            1.5L<br \/>\n$8.31[AUSTRALIA]<\/p>\n<p>MC PHERSON SHIRAZ  2000 [AUSTRALIA]   1.5L    $8.31<\/p>\n<p>MC PHERSON SHIRAZ 1999 [AUSTRALIA]   750ML    $4.83<\/p>\n<p>MC PHERSON SHIRAZ\/CABERNET           750ML    $4.83<br \/>\n1999 [AUSTRALIA]<\/p>\n<p>If any of you have any suggestions please let me know<br \/>\nWe have the wine chiller full at the moment but we are<br \/>\nalways willing to try a new wine (unless it has White<br \/>\nZinfandel in the name \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Kevin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My high-school buddy, Kevin, and his wife, Danna, have been experimenting with some new wines&#8230; lots of them are pretty inexpensive &#8211; including a 5 dollar bottle (yikes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}