{"id":32749,"date":"2021-12-08T10:23:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T13:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/?p=32749"},"modified":"2021-12-08T10:23:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T13:23:31","slug":"wine-reviews-weekly-mini-round-up-for-december-6-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/wine-reviews-weekly-mini-round-up-for-december-6-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up for December 6, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for\u00a0<em>more than most people<\/em>). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes in a \u201cmini-review\u201d format.<\/p>\n<p>They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1winedude.com\/first-time-start-here\/\">click here for the skinny on how to read them<\/a>), and are presented links to help you find them, so that you can try them out for yourself. Cheers!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/find\/cantina+vignaioli+elvio+pertinace+docg+barbaresco+piemonte+italy\/2018?referring_site=OWD\">2018 Cantina Vignaioli Elvio Pertinace \u2018Pertinace\u2019 (Barbaresco)<\/a><\/strong>: Perky above all! Grab some Bolognese and let the happiness commence. $36 B+<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/find\/og+de+negoce+n+82\/?referring_site=OWD\">2018 OG de Negoce N. 82 Meritage (Walla Walla Valley)<\/a><\/strong>: A deep, dark, expertly structured bargain worth bragging about. $29 A-<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/find\/og+de+negoce+n+48\/?referring_site=OWD\">2018 OG de Negoce N. 48 Pinot Noir (Russian River Valley)<\/a><\/strong>: A river of bright red berry fruitiness for not a lot of rowing. $24 B+<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/find\/qupe+grenache+central+coast+california+usa\/2018?referring_site=OWD\">2018 Qupe Grenache (Santa Barbara County)<\/a><\/strong>: Smoky, meaty, juicy, rich, chewy\u2026 basically, a meal unto itself! $39 B+<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/find\/hahn+fmly+slh+chard+santa+lucia+highlands+monterey+county+central+coast+california+usa\/2019?referring_site=OWD\">2019 Hahn Family Wines \u2018SLH\u2019 Chardonnay (Santa Lucia Highlands)<\/a><\/strong>: Just like the SLH font on the label, everything inside this bottle is dialed up BIG. $20 B<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/find\/cattleya+the+initiation+sra+santa+lucia+highlands+monterey+county+central+coast+california+usa\/2019?referring_site=OWD\">2019 Cattleya \u2018The Initiation\u2019 Syrah (Santa Lucia Highlands)<\/a><\/strong>: A gorgeous, exquisitely textured, nearly flawless valentine to SLH itself. $70 A<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/find\/goosecross+branta\/2017?referring_site=OWD\">2017 Goosecross Branta Red (Napa Valley)<\/a><\/strong>: When blueberry pie got SEXAHHHHH!!!!!! $65 A-<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/find\/oberon+merlot+napa+valley+county+north+coast+california+usa\/2019?referring_site=OWD\">2019 Oberon Merlot (Napa Valley)<\/a><\/strong>: A big ol\u2019 crowd-pleasin\u2019 heap of NV juiciness. $20 B<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/find\/dom+bosquet+brut+mendoza+argentina\/2018?referring_site=OWD\">NV 2018 Domaine Bousquet Brut (Mendoza)<\/a><\/strong>: Tangy citrus action FTW, people!! $15 B+<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/find\/henri+drive+vintage+longbottom+magnus+sra+padthaway+south+australia\/2019?referring_site=OWD\">2019 Henry\u2019s Drive \u2013 Vintage Longbottom Magnus Shiraz (Padthaway):<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Those who never gave up on the big, bold Shiraz style will be swooning\u2026 $80 A-<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for\u00a0more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes in a \u201cmini-review\u201d format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}