{"id":1920,"date":"2010-12-15T22:56:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T22:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2010-12-15T22:56:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T22:56:03","slug":"marcillac-an-affordable-wine-to-fall-in-love-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/france\/marcillac-an-affordable-wine-to-fall-in-love-with","title":{"rendered":"Marcillac: an affordable wine to fall in love with"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMGP1081.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1925\" title=\"IMGP1081\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMGP1081.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMGP1081.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMGP1081-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMGP1081-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMGP1081-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forget points. Forget shopping-list tasting notes. Forget wine tasting as a &#8216;competition&#8217; to see which wine is best.<\/p>\n<p>The endorsement I will give this wine is that I love it. Each vintage I have tried has had the same personality. It&#8217;s the personality of a particular grape variety grown in particular soils.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s bloody, ferrous, meaty and fresh, with minerality and bright fruit. It&#8217;s drinkable. It&#8217;s food friendly. And I like to drink it.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all, it&#8217;s affordable, at under \u00a310.<\/p>\n<p>If I had this on the table with Lafite 2005, I would drink this first (if my experience of Lafite 2005 last year was typical &#8211; a tightly bound wine with roast coffee oak notes that wasn&#8217;t all that much fun to drink at the moment).<\/p>\n<p>The wine? <strong>Domaine Du Cros Marcillac Lo Sang del Pais 2009<\/strong>. 12.5% alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>UK agent: Les Caves de Pyrene<\/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>Forget points. Forget shopping-list tasting notes. Forget wine tasting as a &#8216;competition&#8217; to see which wine is best. The endorsement I will give this wine is that I love it&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[376,134],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","tag-france","tag-southwest-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920","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=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}