{"id":1898,"date":"2014-02-25T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T11:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2014-10-22T13:17:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T17:17:16","slug":"wine-find-vintjs-dry-creek-valley-zinfandel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/25\/wine-find-vintjs-dry-creek-valley-zinfandel\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine Find \u2013 VINTJS Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014-02-11-19.56.45.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1903\" alt=\"SAMSUNG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014-02-11-19.56.45-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>So sometime over the winter I was in a Trader Joe&#8217;s [*] and saw their VINTJS Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel, priced around $7.99. So I grabbed a couple of bottles, just on a whim. I don&#8217;t remember if this was before or after the Big Bronchitis, but we didn&#8217;t open a bottle until sometime in February. Oh my goodness &#8212; what a lovely wine! Lush, medium-bodied, and reminiscent of fruit &#8212; blackberry came to mind. Just a really lovely wine. I drank it with this <a title=\"Mini-post: Ham and Spaghetti Squash Casserole\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/22\/mini-post-ham-and-spaghetti-squash-casserole\/\" target=\"_blank\">down-home casserole<\/a> &#8212; this is <strong>not<\/strong> a pretentious wine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014-02-13-17.10.51.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1907\" alt=\"SAMSUNG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014-02-13-17.10.51-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A couple of days later we got socked with a pretty decent snowstorm. After some shoveling, I was hankering for something warm and adult. I saw the partial bottle of wine and thought Mulled Wine! So I poured the remaining wine (estimated 3 cups), one cup of cran-rasberry juice (100% juice), and 1\/4 cup of sugar into a saucepan. I wrapped two tablespoons of mulling spices in a cheesecloth sachet and dropped that in. Gently simmer 15 or 20 minutes until hot and the spices are well-infused. Serve steaming hot in mugs.<\/p>\n<p>[*] I swear I am not a paid shill for Trader Joe&#8217;s. But you just can&#8217;t beat them for reasonably-priced everyday wines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Standard caveat<\/strong>: This is a personal recommendation. The Trader Joe&#8217;s folks don\u2019t know I exist and have provided neither product nor compensation for this endorsement. In fact, they\u2019ll probably sue me if this ever gets in a search engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So sometime over the winter I was in a Trader Joe&#8217;s [*] and saw their VINTJS Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel, priced around $7.99. So I grabbed a couple of bottles, just on a whim. I don&#8217;t remember if this was before or after the Big Bronchitis, but we didn&#8217;t open a bottle until sometime in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-beverages","category-product-recommendation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014-02-11-20.04.11.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ImYM-uC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2708,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/2708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}