{"id":264,"date":"2013-10-27T17:59:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T07:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-352875-1094412.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2022-07-29T08:16:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T22:16:46","slug":"aramis-the-governor-syrah-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/aramis-the-governor-syrah-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Aramis, &#8220;The Governor&#8221; Syrah 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s little doubt that bad wines make the good ones seem great and vice versa, but if you ever try the Aramis \u201cThe Governor\u201d Syrah 2006 after a glass of poorly crafted Pinot from the Yarra (like I did), you\u2019ll seriously believe that you\u2019ve received manna from heaven!<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cGovernor\u201d is probably Aramis\u2019 flagship wine, so you\u2019d expect it to be pretty good, and there\u2019s no doubt that it stands head and shoulders above anything I\u2019ve sampled recently. The typically dark berry McLaren Vale fruit has more than a hint of chocolate and mocha on the edges and there\u2019s plenty of smoky burnt oak and licorice flavours at the back.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s perhaps no surprise that Halliday gave it 94 points and it retails at around $55 a bottle, but at least it delivers a quality of finish that\u2019s commensurate with its price point. It\u2019s definitely not a quaffer but if the alternative is a cheap but astringent Pinot, I\u2019m happy to pay for quality!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s little doubt that bad wines make the good ones seem great and vice versa, but if you ever try the Aramis \u201cThe Governor\u201d Syrah 2006 after a glass of poorly crafted Pinot from the Yarra (like I did), you\u2019ll seriously believe that you\u2019ve received manna from heaven! The \u201cGovernor\u201d is probably Aramis\u2019 flagship wine,&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/aramis-the-governor-syrah-2006\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[62,71,8,5,46,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2024,"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/2024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}