{"id":6639,"date":"2007-11-11T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/great-drop-from-best-of-the-best\/"},"modified":"2007-11-11T09:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T09:59:00","slug":"great-drop-from-best-of-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2007\/11\/great-drop-from-best-of-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"GREAT DROP FROM BEST OF THE BEST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.co.uk\/rodeime\/VINTNEWS\/photo?authkey=z2TXO9lQWUA#5131522406541359186\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.google.co.uk\/rodeime\/RzbUcNba-FI\/AAAAAAAABtQ\/qByDjMoEHyE\/s288\/Wynns%20Coona%20CabSav05.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>WHEN you enjoy a vintage that produces fruit that\u2019s described as \u201coverall excellent,\u201d and you choose just the very top 25% of that fruit for your wine, you can expect to come up with a top drop.<\/p>\n<p>Wynns\u2019 Chief Winemaker, Sue Hodder did just that with the 2005 Black Label Cabernet Sauvignon, a classic that once again underlines why the Black Label \u2013 now in its fiftieth year of production \u2013 continually sets the benchmark for Cabernet Sauvignon from Coonawarra.<\/p>\n<p>Sue says this latest release is a true expression of the Wynns style of Cabernet.  \u201cIts very \u2018Wynns like\u2019 in that it exhibits dark fruit flavours with a hint of classic Coonawarra mint; we had an almost perfect vintage in 2005, with a lack of rain and slightly warmer than average temperatures producing intensely flavoured fruit that allowed us to produce a wine with rich flavours and generous tannins,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>This is a wine that makes for great drinking now, or can be put away to reach its peak around 2015; pay $29.99 and enjoy with roast beef, lamb or hearty duck or game dishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHEN you enjoy a vintage that produces fruit that\u2019s described as \u201coverall excellent,\u201d and you choose just the very top 25% of that fruit for your wine, you can expect to come up with a top drop. Wynns\u2019 Chief Winemaker, Sue Hodder did just that with the 2005 Black Label Cabernet Sauvignon, a classic that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[406,392,421],"class_list":["post-6639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cabernet","tag-coonawarra","tag-wynns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}