{"id":13207,"date":"2015-11-15T17:14:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T17:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=13207"},"modified":"2015-11-15T17:14:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T17:14:03","slug":"the-remarkable-cortez-2014-from-testalonga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/south-africa\/the-remarkable-cortez-2014-from-testalonga","title":{"rendered":"The remarkable Cortez 2014 from Testalonga"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"testalonga<\/p>\n

I’ve admired Craig Hawkins’ Testalonga wines for a while now. They are just so brave. And delicious. [See here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>\u00a0for reviews.] This is his Chenin that’s made without skin contact. It’s fully beautiful, and has no additions at any point: it’s a truly natural wine. Just 10.5% alcohol, too!<\/p>\n

Testalonga ‘Cortez’ El Bandito 2014 Swartland, South Africa
\n<\/strong>Organically farmed vines from Tom Lubbe’s Observatory block in Bosgaasfontein; 42 year old vines. Pure, fresh and lemony with nice pithy notes. Direct and fine with nice ripe apple fruit, showing lovely purity. Linear with great acidity and a saline, mineral core. 94\/100 (Slurp<\/a> have it for \u00a322.95, a few others have it for \u00a325)
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Find this wine with wine-searcher.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve admired Craig Hawkins’ Testalonga wines for a while now. They are just so brave. And delicious. [See here, here and here\u00a0for reviews.] This is his Chenin that’s made without…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,49],"tags":[404,377,374],"class_list":["post-13207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chenin-blanc","category-south-africa","tag-chenin-blanc","tag-natural-wine","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13207","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=13207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13209,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13207\/revisions\/13209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}