{"id":1166,"date":"2016-02-27T21:53:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T01:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2024-08-25T20:33:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T00:33:28","slug":"childress-malbec-open-bottle-night-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/childress-malbec-open-bottle-night-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Childress Malbec &#8211; Open That Bottle Night 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight we&#8217;re taking part in our first Open That Bottle Night.&nbsp; The annual event is dedicated to the old and dusty bottles that happen to stick around after all of these years.&nbsp; The bottle we chose for tonight is the 2008 Childress Malbec from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childressvineyards.com\/\">Childress Vineyards<\/a>.&nbsp; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1165\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1165\" class=\"wp-image-1165 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_5816-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"2008 Childress Malbec\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_5816-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_5816-113x150.jpg 113w, http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_5816-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bottle of the Barrel Select 2008 Malbec from Childress Vineyards<\/p><\/div>This luscious wine is bold, yet maintains a soft profile.&nbsp; The nose is offers a wide range of aromas, keeping mainly to stewed cherries and allspice.&nbsp; There is a subtle floral note however, that comes around in the background hinting toward violets or geraniums.&nbsp; The flavor profile is soft and silky and is pleasantly complex.&nbsp; It comes across as being mostly earthy, yet there are some dried fruit flavors tucked away in the mid-palate.&nbsp; A gentle finish shows a bit of vanilla and cherries before fading away slowly.<\/p>\n<p>We actually discovered this bottle while we were in their tasting room.&nbsp; They often have library wines for sale in the tasting room and we noticed the 2008 Childress Malbec sitting right on the shelf, calling our name.&nbsp; We couldn&#8217;t pass it up and we&#8217;re glade we didn&#8217;t!&nbsp; This is one tasty wine!<\/p>\n<p>Head over to the winery and see what library wines they have to offer.&nbsp; Childress Vineyards is located in Lexington, NC.<\/p>\n<p>[su_gmap address=&#8221;Childress Vineyards, Lexington, NC&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight we&#8217;re taking part in our first Open That Bottle Night.&nbsp; The annual event is dedicated to the old and dusty bottles that happen to stick around after all of these years.&nbsp; The bottle we chose for tonight is the 2008 Childress Malbec from Childress Vineyards.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[379],"tags":[230,254,154],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-cellar","tag-childress-vineyards","tag-wine-review","tag-yadkin-valley","has-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}