{"id":1626,"date":"2010-11-04T22:14:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T22:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2010-11-04T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T23:04:46","slug":"a-beautiful-syrah-from-the-grampians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/syrah\/a-beautiful-syrah-from-the-grampians","title":{"rendered":"A beautiful Syrah from the Grampians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1050350.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1631\" title=\"P1050350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1050350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1050350.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1050350-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1050350-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1050350-400x276.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Never heard of this wine before, but it&#8217;s brilliant. A great example of the new wave of serious, small scale Aussie producers who are shunning over-ripe, sweet, oaky styles for those with freshness and precision. It also shows that it is possible to make world class Australian red wine at just 13.5% alcohol. More people should be picking earlier (although, of course, there&#8217;s more to it than just this).<\/p>\n<p>The winery has a blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestorywines.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, which is worth a read.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Story Westgate Vineyard Shiraz 2008 Grampians, Victoria, Australia<\/strong><br \/>\n13.5% alcohol. Wonderful stuff. Lovely taut, savoury, dark blackberry and raspberry fruit with a spicy dimension on the nose. The palate is concentrated, tight and savoury with some subtle reductive notes and focused dark fruits. Really good acidity. This brooding, intense wine has a lovely future ahead of it, although it&#8217;s quite tight, backward and structured at the moment. 93\/100 (www.auswineonline.co.uk)<\/p>\n<p>Find this wine with\u00a0<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>Never heard of this wine before, but it&#8217;s brilliant. A great example of the new wave of serious, small scale Aussie producers who are shunning over-ripe, sweet, oaky styles for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,11],"tags":[366,353,127],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-syrah","tag-australia","tag-syrah","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","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=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/1634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}