{"id":367,"date":"2012-05-24T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T04:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-352875-1094412.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=367"},"modified":"2022-07-29T08:17:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T22:17:02","slug":"westlake-eleazar-shiraz-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/westlake-eleazar-shiraz-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Westlake, Eleazar Shiraz 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If ever you needed proof that bigger is not better, look no further than the Westlake Eleazar Vineyard in South Australia\u2019s Barossa Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Their flagship Shiraz, the \u201cEleazar\u201d, sells at around $55 a bottle but is as good a Barossa Shiraz as I\u2019ve tried in the last year. They only produce about 70 cases of this wine a year, but it\u2019s seriously good.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s slightly dusty on the nose, but the palate is typically Barossa with generous mouth-filling currants and chocolate but constrained by a French and American oak support structure.<\/p>\n<p>The beauty of the wine is its silky mouth feel and the absence of any flat spots. The secret is out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If ever you needed proof that bigger is not better, look no further than the Westlake Eleazar Vineyard in South Australia\u2019s Barossa Valley. Their flagship Shiraz, the \u201cEleazar\u201d, sells at around $55 a bottle but is as good a Barossa Shiraz as I\u2019ve tried in the last year. They only produce about 70 cases of&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/westlake-eleazar-shiraz-2009\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[86,80,10,8,5,46,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367"}],"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=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2044,"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/2044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}