{"id":243,"date":"2014-09-17T21:16:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T01:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/?p=243"},"modified":"2024-04-21T15:26:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T19:26:43","slug":"cypress-bend-malbec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/cypress-bend-malbec\/","title":{"rendered":"Cypress Bend Malbec &#8212; Wine Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight we ate out at a local pizza restaurant, but that didn&#8217;t stop us from enjoying some great North Carolina wine. When we got home, we decided to unwind with a bottle of the 2011 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cypressbendvineyards.com\">Cypress Bend<\/a> Malbec.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This ruby-red wine is clean and clear in the glass. The vibrant color is constant from the center all the way to the edge. The nose is complex but a bit faint. There are hints of blueberry and possibly white pepper. The initial flavor is light as well with some of the white pepper mixed with a subtle creamy texture. On the finishing notes, the wine shows a light lactic finish.<\/p>\n<p>This wine is perfect to unwind with. It isn&#8217;t terribly heavy and yet it has more body\u00a0than a white wine or ros\u00e9. This wine would have paired nicely with our wood fired pizza, but we could also see this with a nice pasta dish. A pork tenderloin with a blackberry glaze would also be fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>You can buy any of their wines on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cypressbendvineyards.com\/xe\/xe.asp?page=browse\">website<\/a> or you can plan a visit to the winery in Wagram, NC.<\/p>\n<p>[su_gmap address=&#8221;Cypres Bend Vineyards, Wagram, NC&#8221;]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Check out our other NC Wine Month postings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[su_posts template=&#8221;templates\/teaser-loop.php&#8221; id=&#8221;156, 696&#8243; posts_per_page=&#8221;-1&#8243; post_type=&#8221;page&#8221; taxonomy=&#8221;post_tag&#8221; tax_operator=&#8221;0&#8243; order=&#8221;asc&#8221; orderby=&#8221;id&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight we ate out at a local pizza restaurant, but that didn&#8217;t stop us from enjoying some great North Carolina wine. When we got home, we decided to unwind with a bottle of the 2011 Cypress Bend Malbec.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[379],"tags":[117,116,81,203,261,254],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-cellar","tag-cypress-bend-vineyards","tag-malbec","tag-nc-wine","tag-nc-wine-month-2014","tag-red-wine","tag-wine-review","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","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=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}