{"id":1076,"date":"2010-08-15T18:37:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T18:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2010-08-15T18:37:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T18:37:54","slug":"naiades-a-serious-spanish-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wine-reviews\/naiades-a-serious-spanish-white","title":{"rendered":"Naiades: a serious Spanish white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMGP8898.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1077\" title=\"IMGP8898\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMGP8898.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMGP8898.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMGP8898-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMGP8898-150x129.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMGP8898-400x344.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spain, like Portugal, is best known for its red wines. But it is exciting to see some serious Spanish whites emerging. Like this: a thrillingly complex expression of the Verdejo grape variety. It&#8217;s big, bold, but not overblown &#8211; and coming back to it after 5 days in the fridge, it is still beautifully focused and fresh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bodegas Naia &#8216;Naiades&#8217; 2006 Rueda, Spain<\/strong><br \/>\n14% alcohol. This varietal Verdejo comes from eight plots of old vines, many of which are over 100 years old and some of which predate phylloxera. It&#8217;s fermented and aged for eight months in new French oak. Deep yellow\/gold colour. Intense, toasty, nutty, pungently fruity nose with citrus, pear and ripe peaches. The palate has a strongly savoury, spicy, mineral core with tangy citrus fruit and some peachy richness. Complex, bold and intense this has a bit of pithy bitterness, but it works well with the ripe fruit characters. A distinctive wine that probably needs a decade to reach maturity. It&#8217;s so good, you can forgive the inordinately heavy, deeply punted bottle. 94\/100 (\u00a319.99 Find Wine &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findwine.co.uk\">www.findwine.co.uk<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain, like Portugal, is best known for its red wines. But it is exciting to see some serious Spanish whites emerging. Like this: a thrillingly complex expression of the Verdejo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,3],"tags":[118,371,117],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","category-wine-reviews","tag-rueda","tag-spain","tag-verdejo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","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=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}