{"id":1589,"date":"2010-10-31T00:22:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T00:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2010-10-31T00:22:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T00:22:15","slug":"good-affordable-pinot-and-chobham-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/good-affordable-pinot-and-chobham-common","title":{"rendered":"Good affordable Pinot and Chobham common"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0091.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1594\" title=\"IMAG0091\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0091.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0091.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0091-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0091-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0091-400x240.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drinking a very nice, affordable Pinot Noir as I type. It&#8217;s <strong>Villa Maria Private Bin 2009 Marlborough, New Zealand<\/strong> (\u00a39.99 Sainsbury, Tesco, Coop, Wholefoods, NZ House of Wine). Fresh and sappy with bright cherry fruit and lovely savoury spiciness, this is deliciously drinkable but also has a hint of seriousness. I can&#8217;t really think of a better Pinot Noir at this price. Can you?<\/p>\n<p>It has been a nice day. After a late night, the Goode family didn&#8217;t stir until 10 am, with the exception of one of our cats, who molests us until we feed him at 7 am every day. He just doesn&#8217;t give up. Paw in the face. Even a pillow over the head is no defence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1595\" title=\"IMAG0100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0100.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0100-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0100-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0100-400x240.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had a nice walk with friends this afternoon on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chobham_Common\" target=\"_blank\">Chobham common<\/a>. It&#8217;s an example of an unnatural habitat &#8211; lowland heath &#8211; that is worth preserving, because of its ecological diversity. Hounslow Heath, much nearer to us, is another example of a lowland heath. Unfortunately, these habitats are under threat, and take quite a bit of work to maintain. But they have a real beauty. Chobham common is one of the most important examples of this habitat in Europe, apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drinking a very nice, affordable Pinot Noir as I type. It&#8217;s Villa Maria Private Bin 2009 Marlborough, New Zealand (\u00a39.99 Sainsbury, Tesco, Coop, Wholefoods, NZ House of Wine). Fresh and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","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=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}