{"id":12380,"date":"2015-08-01T23:28:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T23:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=12380"},"modified":"2015-08-02T09:42:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T09:42:11","slug":"matrot-meursault-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/burgundy\/matrot-meursault-2012","title":{"rendered":"Matrot Meursault 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12381\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1010726-001-500x306.jpg\" alt=\"matrot meursault\" width=\"500\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1010726-001-500x306.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1010726-001-150x92.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1010726-001-400x245.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1010726-001.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When white Burgundy is good, it is peerless. Well, almost, as the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com\/newzealand\/kumeu_river_burgundy.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Kumeu River tasting<\/a> showed.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good one. It&#8217;s from Thierry and Pascale Matrot, and it&#8217;s a village-level Meursault that over-delivers. Shame it isn&#8217;t a bit cheaper, but that is modern Burgundy for you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thierry et Pascale Matrot Meursault 2012 Burgundy, France<\/strong><br \/>\nAromatic and quite intense with toast, pear, ripe apple, spices and mealy notes. The palate is powerful and direct with lemons, pear and spice, as well as a hint of creaminess. Lovely complexity and balance for a village wine, showing finesse, purity, perfume and good acidity. 93\/100 (\u00a337 Laithwaites)<\/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>When white Burgundy is good, it is peerless. Well, almost, as the recent Kumeu River tasting showed. This is a good one. It&#8217;s from Thierry and Pascale Matrot, and it&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,65],"tags":[379,380,305],"class_list":["post-12380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burgundy","category-chardonnay","tag-burgundy","tag-chardonnay","tag-meursault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12380","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=12380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12385,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12380\/revisions\/12385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}