{"id":353,"date":"2013-06-25T22:03:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T02:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2014-10-22T13:20:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T17:20:08","slug":"another-tuesday-night-wine-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/25\/another-tuesday-night-wine-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Tuesday Night Wine Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Beverly, over at <a title=\"One Week Closer\" href=\"http:\/\/oneweekcloser.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">One Week Closer<\/a>, took my comment about not having much luck with the under $5 wines as a challenge, and gave me a bottle of Rene Barbier Mediterranean White to try. At a price point of $4.99, I was a **bit** skeptical, but she was spot on! It&#8217;s a nice crisp white, not too sweet, not too dry, and seems pretty versatile. I ate it with delivery pizza, but I could definitely pair it with cheese and fruit as a summer party starter. I think Bev pegged it when she described it as a Houswives Wine (she shares my guilty pleasure for the Bravo RH series).<\/p>\n<p>Beverly got this at a local liquor store and I think I&#8217;ve seen it at Trader Joe&#8217;s, so it should be readily available at mass retailers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Standard caveat<\/strong>: This is a personal recommendation. These folks don&#8217;t know I exist and have provided neither product nor compensation for this endorsement. In fact, they&#8217;ll probably sue me if this ever gets in a search engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Beverly, over at One Week Closer, took my comment about not having much luck with the under $5 wines as a challenge, and gave me a bottle of Rene Barbier Mediterranean White to try. At a price point of $4.99, I was a **bit** skeptical, but she was spot on! It&#8217;s a nice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":354,"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-353","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\/2013\/06\/2013-06-24-19.45.26.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ImYM-5H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","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=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2711,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/2711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}