{"id":13632,"date":"2015-12-30T16:18:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T16:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=13632"},"modified":"2015-12-30T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T16:18:10","slug":"fedellos-do-couto-bastarda-a-lovely-lighter-red-from-ribeira-sacra-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/spain\/fedellos-do-couto-bastarda-a-lovely-lighter-red-from-ribeira-sacra-spain","title":{"rendered":"Fedellos do Couto Bastarda, a lovely lighter red from Ribeira Sacra, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13633\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/fedellos-do-couto-bastarda-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/fedellos-do-couto-bastarda-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/fedellos-do-couto-bastarda-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/fedellos-do-couto-bastarda-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/fedellos-do-couto-bastarda.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\nThis is a beautiful lighter red wine from the Ribeira Sacra region of Spain. It&#8217;s from the Merenzao variety, which is the local name for Bastardo (Portugal) and Trousseau (France). The Fedellos do Couto project (which translates as the &#8216;four brats of Couto) is a collaboration between\u00a0Jes\u00fas Olivares, Carlos Bare\u00f1o, Pablo Soldavini and Luis Taboada, and they have 5.5 hectares of vines.<\/p>\n<p>Taboada had vines in his family property, with prized old north- and east-facing vineyards (cooler exposition), while Soldavini is a viticulturist, and Bare\u00f1o and Olivares are winemakers. The project has been going since 2011. The wines are made with whole clusters, wild yeasts and neutral French oak. Soils are granite and schist. UK agent is Indigo Wine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fedellos do Couto Bastarda 2013 Ribeira Sacra, Spain<\/strong><br \/>\n11% alcohol. Pale cherry red colour. Wonderful aromas of cherries, herbs and violets with some cherry liqueur notes. Sappy and bright with lovely purity. Fine and expressive, this is a silky lighter-style red wine with fresh red cherries the key theme. Quite Pinot-like. 93\/100<\/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>This is a beautiful lighter red wine from the Ribeira Sacra region of Spain. It&#8217;s from the Merenzao variety, which is the local name for Bastardo (Portugal) and Trousseau (France)&#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],"tags":[253,371],"class_list":["post-13632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","tag-ribeira-sacra","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632","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=13632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13634,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632\/revisions\/13634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}