Decided to honor the late Serge Hochar (proprietor of Chateau Musar) by opening\u00a0a bottle of the 2011 Musar Jeune during a dinner party last night, and it didn’t disappoint. There’s both a seriousness to the wine and a decadent verve that could make it appealing across\u00a0many palates. Rich red plum and sweet (almost curried) spices on the nose with a very nice wave of graphite. The palate is a bit linear, but offers clean, bright fruit hovering mostly in the red plum and black cherry camps while incorporating touches of dried dark flowers. Holds itself together with a very nice structure and vibrant acidity. 90+ pts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Decided to honor the late Serge Hochar (proprietor of Chateau Musar) by opening\u00a0a bottle of the 2011 Musar Jeune during a dinner party last night, and it didn’t disappoint. There’s both a seriousness to the wine and a decadent verve that could make it appealing across\u00a0many palates. Rich red plum and sweet (almost curried) spices on the nose with a very nice wave of graphite. The palate is a bit linear, but offers.. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.winenashville.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.winenashville.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.winenashville.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.winenashville.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.winenashville.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.winenashville.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"http:\/\/www.winenashville.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.winenashville.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.winenashville.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.winenashville.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}