{"id":20346,"date":"2018-03-29T18:06:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T18:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=20346"},"modified":"2018-03-29T20:39:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T20:39:52","slug":"wine-writer-buys-wine-shock-but-which-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/spain\/wine-writer-buys-wine-shock-but-which-ones","title":{"rendered":"Wine writer buys wine! Shock! But which ones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_5601-500x334.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_5601-500x334.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_5601-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_5601-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_5601.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had a case of wine delivered today. One that I paid for! Yes, occasionally we wine writers buy wine. Well, at least I do. Apart from anything else, a diet of samples (even good ones) isn&#8217;t healthy. How can you connect with readers who buy wine if you, as a writer, are never in their shoes? When you spend your own money on a bottle you have a different relationship with it.<\/p>\n<p>I spend quite a bit of money on wine in restaurants (these days, I&#8217;m more often dining out than in it seems), but I also buy wine from retailers. And I reckon it&#8217;s useful for readers to see what the writers they follow buy. This time it was some Spanish whites, and they are pictured above. There were 3 bottles each of the Feifinanes Albari\u00f1o, which I really like, and the classic Tondonia Reserva Branco 2004. Then a couple of bottles of the Rosal (another lovely Albari\u00f1o). And the last bottle of Eulogio Pomares&#8217; amazing Carralcoba wine. Finally, two singletons from Jerez: the Equipo Navazos and the Niepoort Navazos. There&#8217;s some good drinking here, and the wines were also very reasonably priced.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20353\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-29-at-19.03.47-1-500x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-29-at-19.03.47-1-500x161.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-29-at-19.03.47-1-150x48.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-29-at-19.03.47-1-400x129.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-29-at-19.03.47-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a case of wine delivered today. One that I paid for! Yes, occasionally we wine writers buy wine. Well, at least I do. Apart from anything else, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[371],"class_list":["post-20346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20346","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=20346"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20354,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20346\/revisions\/20354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}