{"id":12269,"date":"2015-07-14T11:51:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T11:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=12269"},"modified":"2015-07-14T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T11:53:00","slug":"two-lovely-volcanic-wines-from-the-cotes-dauvergne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/pinot-noir\/two-lovely-volcanic-wines-from-the-cotes-dauvergne","title":{"rendered":"Two lovely volcanic wines from the Cotes d&#8217;Auvergne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12272\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P1011728.jpg\" alt=\"auvergne st verny volcans\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P1011728.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P1011728-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P1011728-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cave St Verny make some lovely wines, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardkelley.co.uk\/cotedauvergne_index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">C\u00f4tes d\u2019Auvergne<\/a>, a really interesting but obscure wine region pretty much in the middle of France, which is counted as part of the Loire. It&#8217;s based around a volcano,\u00a0 Puy de D\u00f4me, at the edge of the Massif Central, which makes for some interesting terroirs. The Cave St Verny controls about 40% of the vineyards in the region, and consists of 86 farmers, with 180 hectares of vines between them. 40 of these are in Puy-de-D\u00f4me IGP, while 140 are in the C\u00f4tes d&#8217;Auvergne AOP. The main grapes? St Verny have 90 ha of Gamay, 60 ha of Pinot noir and 30 ha of Chardonnay. [The co-op also make an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com\/wineblog\/pinot-noir\/a-brilliant-pinot-noir-from-the-auvergne\" target=\"_blank\">excellent Pinot Noir and Gamay<\/a> under the\u00a0Puy de D\u00f4me label.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cave St Verny The Lost Vineyard Les Coutayes Pinot Gris 2014 Puy de D\u00f4me, Auvergne, France<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is a small experimental parcel of Pinot Gris from the Auvergne region. The 2012 vintage was eaten by rabbits and the 2013 suffered hail damage, so 2014 was the debut vintage. Textured, pure pear fruit with a bit of spice and nice grapiness. This has an appealing rounded, generous personality. It&#8217;s a lovely wine showing such prettiness. 93\/100<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cave St Verny &#8216;Les Volcans&#8217; 2014 C\u00f4tes d&#8217;Auvergne, France<\/strong><br \/>\nThe traditional local blend of Pinot Noir and Gamay. Lovely sappy, green-tinged raspberry and cherry fruit with some nice minerally, stony spiciness. Very fresh and full of interest, this is brilliantly drinkable. 90\/100<\/p>\n<p>UK availability: <a href=\"http:\/\/dreyfus-ashby.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dreyfus Ashby<\/a>\u00a0(note: this is not the same as the US wine company of the same name)<\/p>\n<p>Find these wines\u00a0with <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>Cave St Verny make some lovely wines, from the C\u00f4tes d\u2019Auvergne, a really interesting but obscure wine region pretty much in the middle of France, which is counted as part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,81,89,60],"tags":[221,376,386],"class_list":["post-12269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gamay","category-loire","category-pinot-gris","category-pinot-noir","tag-auvergne","tag-france","tag-loire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12269","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=12269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12274,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12269\/revisions\/12274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}