{"id":580,"date":"2009-08-17T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/?p=580"},"modified":"2009-08-17T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T13:00:06","slug":"overlake-cabernet-sauvignon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/17\/overlake-cabernet-sauvignon\/","title":{"rendered":"Overlake Cabernet Sauvignon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pic\/overlake cabernet sauvignon.jpg\" alt=\"Overlake Cabernet Sauvignon\" title=\"Overlake Cabernet Sauvignon\" style=\"float:right; margin-left:2em;\" \/>I was happy enough with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/15\/2006-fetzer-valley-oaks-cabernet-sauvignon\">Fetzer Cabernet<\/a> from Trader Joe&#8217;s to give another of their budget Cabernets a try. Like the Fetzer, this comes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonswineblog.com\/2009\/03\/31\/2007-overlake-cabernet-sauvignon\/\">recommended by Jason<\/a>, and it set me back $6.<\/p>\n<h2>Running the numbers<\/h2>\n<p>Couldn&#8217;t find any information about this wine, so the only reported measurement I have is 14.75% alcohol. My measurements are:<\/p>\n<p>SG: 0.994, pH: 3.72, TA: 3 g\/L<\/p>\n<p>There aren&#8217;t many winemaking books that tell you to shoot for a pH of 3.7 or a TA of 3 g\/L. What do you get when you put that together with high alcohol and low sugar?<\/p>\n<h2>An easy drinking red<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;Buttery.&#8221; So said the Lady of the House, but I didn&#8217;t pick up on that. She didn&#8217;t say, but I could tell she was thinking, that it wasn&#8217;t the only thing I didn&#8217;t pick up on! But getting back to the wine, this is a simple big red that goes down easy. We both liked it with spaghetti and sausage, and I&#8217;m going to add it to my list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/superbowl-wine\/\">superbowl wines<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was happy enough with the Fetzer Cabernet from Trader Joe&#8217;s to give another of their budget Cabernets a try. Like the Fetzer, this comes recommended by Jason, and it set me back $6. Running the numbers Couldn&#8217;t find any information about this wine, so the only reported measurement I have is 14.75% alcohol. My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commercial-wine","tag-nad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}