{"id":661,"date":"2013-03-28T02:03:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T02:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenswineguide.com\/blog\/?p=661"},"modified":"2013-03-28T02:03:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T02:03:44","slug":"march-madness-final-2-wines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"March Madness Final 2 Wines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kenswineguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2013-Wine-Final-Wines2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-664\" title=\"2013-Wine-Final-Wines\" src=\"http:\/\/kenswineguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2013-Wine-Final-Wines2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2013-Wine-Final-Wines2.gif 534w, https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2013-Wine-Final-Wines2-300x56.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well here is a surprise. The Chard was the winning white and the Cab is the winning red. The <strong><a title=\"Shafer-2010-Red-Shoulder-Ranch-Chardonnay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/wine_review\/Shafer-2010-Red-Shoulder-Ranch-Chardonnay\" target=\"_blank\">2010 Shafer &#8220;Red Shoulder Ranch&#8221; Chardonnay<\/a><\/strong> defeated the 2011 St. Urbans Hof &#8220;Piesporter Goldtropfchen Spatlese&#8221; Riesling in white wine semi-final. The <strong><a title=\"Chappellet-2009-Signature-Cabernet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/wine_review\/Chappellet-2009-Signature-Cabernet\" target=\"_blank\">2009 Chappellet &#8220;Signature&#8221; Cabernet Sauvignon<\/a><\/strong> ran away from the 2011 Belle Glos &#8220;Las Alturas&#8221; Pinot Noir.\u00c2\u00a0 So this set up an interesting final!<\/p>\n<p>That said, we now we need to pick a winner. Like before, please vote for your favorite wine below in the comments section. Again, I have made it easier to read the reviews, by linking to the final two contenders above. The voting for this round will continue until April 9, 2013 at 10 p.m. (EST). Good luck to our finalists!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well here is a surprise. The Chard was the winning white and the Cab is the winning red. The 2010 Shafer &#8220;Red Shoulder Ranch&#8221; Chardonnay defeated the 2011 St. Urbans Hof &#8220;Piesporter Goldtropfchen Spatlese&#8221; Riesling in white wine semi-final. The 2009 Chappellet &#8220;Signature&#8221; Cabernet Sauvignon ran away from the 2011 Belle Glos &#8220;Las Alturas&#8221; Pinot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,180,13,173,126,8],"tags":[236,233,235,234],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cabernet-sauvignon","category-chappellet","category-chardonnay","category-shafer","category-wine-ratings","category-wine-recommendations","tag-chappellet-cabernet","tag-march-madness","tag-shafer-chardonnay","tag-wine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenswineguide.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}