{"id":13823,"date":"2016-01-24T14:17:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T14:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=13823"},"modified":"2016-01-24T14:17:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T14:17:44","slug":"brancott-estate-chosen-rows-2013-and-a-recap-on-the-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/new-zealand\/brancott-estate-chosen-rows-2013-and-a-recap-on-the-2010","title":{"rendered":"Brancott Estate Chosen Rows 2013, and a recap on the 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13824\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/P1242452-500x320.jpg\" alt=\"chosen rows\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/P1242452-500x320.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/P1242452-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/P1242452-400x256.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/P1242452.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brancott Estate&#8217;s Chosen Rows Sauvignon Blanc is the result of their desire to make a high-end Sauvignon. I&#8217;ve been following this since its inception. Back in 2009, then chief winemaker with Montana (which is now Brancott) Jeff Clarke came to London to present a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com\/iconsauvignonblanc.htm\" target=\"_blank\">tasting of high-end Sauvignons from around the world<\/a>, and to tell us about the icon project that was underway. Then, in 2013, the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com\/newzealand\/brancott_chosen_rows.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Chosen Rows wine was released<\/a>. It was the 2010 vintage, and finally Brancott had produced something they felt captured their intentions. I was impressed by this first release.<\/p>\n<p>So it was nice to try the new release: 2013. Alongside the 2010. I&#8217;m excited by these wines, because they are proper high-end Sauvignon without any gimmicks, and they will age beautifully, I suspect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brancott Estate Chosen Rows Sauvignon Blanc 2013 Marlborough, New Zealand<\/strong><br \/>\n14.5% alcohol. Quite rich and intense, in a Cotat-like style, with powerful ripe pear and apple flavours. Concentrated and textural, but with good acidity. There are some subtle herbal characters. Primary, vivid and intense with a citrus\/mineral edge to the fruit. Lively, with potential to age really nicely. 93\/100<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brancott Estate Chosen Rows Sauvignon Blanc 2010 Marlborough, New Zealand<\/strong><br \/>\n14% alcohol. Powerful and intense with mineral, chalky citrus and pear fruit with a hint of spice. Still quite youthful and grippy with lovely fruit focus and real presence. Warm and rounded with a fine spiciness and an almost sake-like quality. Some crystalline fruits. Big potential here. 93\/100<\/p>\n<p>Find these wines 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>Brancott Estate&#8217;s Chosen Rows Sauvignon Blanc is the result of their desire to make a high-end Sauvignon. I&#8217;ve been following this since its inception. Back in 2009, then chief winemaker&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16],"tags":[352,355],"class_list":["post-13823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-zealand","category-sauvignon-blanc","tag-new-zealand","tag-sauvignon-blanc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823","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=13823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13825,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823\/revisions\/13825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}