{"id":1991,"date":"2010-12-30T22:28:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T22:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2010-12-30T22:28:46","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T22:28:46","slug":"a-good-lunch-with-some-nice-wines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/portugal\/a-good-lunch-with-some-nice-wines","title":{"rendered":"A good lunch with some nice wines"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Very enjoyable family lunch today at my sister’s place in Gerrards Cross. A four siblings plus their families and my parents were gathered. Some nice wines were opened. I didn’t take proper notes this time, but here are my brief impressions.<\/p>\n

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First some fizz. Ruinart Blanc de Blancs is a very fruit-driven Champagne with lovely depth of flavour. It’s almost vinous, and it is very easy to drink.<\/p>\n

Then a couple of nice reds. The first, Jamet’s Cote Rotie 1999, is an old friend. It’s a really serious expression of Cote Rotie and is drinking very well now, but has some distance to go. The second is another old friend: a wine I’d forgotten about. It’s Domaine de Ravanes Les Gravieres du Taurou Grande Reserve 2000, a Languedoc wine that did very well in a famous blind tasting in 2004<\/a> that I attended. With 50% Petit Verdot and the balance Merlot and a dash of Cabernet, this is a beautifully dense, spicy, slightly tarry wine with real definition and structure, and its ageing very well.<\/p>\n

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Then it was time to turn to another favourite. Cos Frappato 2008 from Sicily: so fresh, bright, elegant and drinkable. A delight. This was followed by a Fortnum & Mason Madeira from Barbeito, designed to go with Christmas pudding. It was actually a brilliant Malvasia, with lovely fresh acidity as well as some sweetness. To finish? A half of Sandeman’s Vau Vintage Port 2004 – one of a large stash bought at \u00a34.99 each from Oddbins some years ago (one of the steals of the decade), and drinking very well now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Very enjoyable family lunch today at my sister’s place in Gerrards Cross. A four siblings plus their families and my parents were gathered. Some nice wines were opened. I didn’t…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,55,79,14,7],"tags":[360,376,384,95,354,54,350,353],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-champagne","category-france","category-languedoc","category-northern-rhone","category-portugal","tag-champagne","tag-france","tag-languedoc","tag-madeira","tag-northern-rhone","tag-port","tag-portugal","tag-syrah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","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=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}