{"id":10672,"date":"2014-10-21T19:40:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T19:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=10672"},"modified":"2014-10-21T19:41:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T19:41:48","slug":"iona-chardonnay-2013-a-star-from-elgin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/south-africa\/iona-chardonnay-2013-a-star-from-elgin","title":{"rendered":"Iona Chardonnay 2013, a star from Elgin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10674\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/P1012856.jpg\" alt=\"iona chardonnay\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/P1012856.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/P1012856-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/P1012856-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My South African wine journalist friends have been raving about Elgin Chardonnay for ages. Do you know what? They may just be right. I&#8217;ve some good ones of late, including impressive examples from new boy Richard Kershaw, and this stunner from Iona.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iona Chardonnay 2013 Elgin, South Africa<\/strong><br \/>\n13% alcohol. A lovely Elgin Chardonnay that blends freshness with a bit of richness. Just beautifully balanced. Grapefruit, pear, white peach and subtle bready notes combine to create an expressive Chardonnay with real citrus precision. Real class. 94\/100 (\u00a314.99 Marks &amp; Spencer)<\/p>\n<p>Find this wine with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/index.lml?referring_site=WAN\" target=\"_blank\">wine-searcher.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My South African wine journalist friends have been raving about Elgin Chardonnay for ages. Do you know what? They may just be right. I&#8217;ve some good ones of late, including&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,49],"tags":[380,236,374],"class_list":["post-10672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chardonnay","category-south-africa","tag-chardonnay","tag-elgin","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10678,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10672\/revisions\/10678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}