{"id":118,"date":"2010-02-23T22:07:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T22:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2010-02-23T22:07:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T22:07:30","slug":"two-contrasting-rhone-style-wines-from-california-and-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/syrah\/two-contrasting-rhone-style-wines-from-california-and-australia","title":{"rendered":"Two contrasting Rhone-style wines from California and Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/HPIM5182.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-119\" title=\"HPIM5182\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/HPIM5182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/HPIM5182.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/HPIM5182-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/HPIM5182-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/HPIM5182-400x287.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two rather different takes on the Rhone here, one tending towards old world elegance; the other, unashamedly ripe and new world in style. They&#8217;re both from UK supermarket (or, to be technically correct, department store) Marks &amp; Spencer, made for them by famous winegrowers. My preference is for the Bonny Doon, but I can see the appeal of the Torbreck.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boony Doon Vineyards Syrah 2006 Central Coast, California<br \/>\n<\/strong>Fresh and restrained on the nose with forest fruits and spice, as well as a bit of earth. The palate is tight and youthful with blackberry and dark cherry fruit kept savoury by attractive spicy, earthy notes. Refined and food friendly; European in style, without any new world sweetness. 91\/100\u00a0(\u00a38.99 Marks &amp; Spencer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marksandspencer.com\/Central-Coast-Syrah-2006-Case\/dp\/B000WIQ6FI?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1266961888&amp;categoryNodeID=&amp;ref=sr_1_7&amp;page=&amp;node=42966030&amp;sr=1-7&amp;mnSBrand=core&amp;rh=\">here<\/a>, normally \u00a311.99)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marananga Dam Old Vines Grenache\/Shiraz\/Mourvedre 2005 Barossa, Australia<br \/>\n<\/strong>Made by Torbreck. Very sweet, aromatic nose with cherry, prune and spice. The palate is warm and smooth with super-ripe, liqueur-like berry and cherry fruit with some strawberry jam notes, as well as intense spiciness and hints of bacon. An unusual style: very ripe but also quite elegant, albeit with some alcoholic heat. Beginning t0 show some evolution, with a bit of tawny Port character. 88\/100\u00a0(\u00a39.99 Marks &amp; Spencer)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two rather different takes on the Rhone here, one tending towards old world elegance; the other, unashamedly ripe and new world in style. They&#8217;re both from UK supermarket (or, to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,36,37,11],"tags":[366,368,369,353],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-california","category-grenache","category-syrah","tag-australia","tag-california","tag-grenache","tag-syrah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","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=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}