{"id":2342,"date":"2011-03-01T22:45:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T22:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2011-03-01T23:02:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T23:02:57","slug":"wine-has-never-been-so-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/wine-has-never-been-so-good","title":{"rendered":"Wine has never been so good!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMGP0848_6_7_tonemapped1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2350\" title=\"IMGP0848_6_7_tonemapped\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMGP0848_6_7_tonemapped1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMGP0848_6_7_tonemapped1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMGP0848_6_7_tonemapped1-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMGP0848_6_7_tonemapped1-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMGP0848_6_7_tonemapped1-400x261.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For all the moaning about the internationalization of wine styles (something that I am concerned about), I need to point out that there&#8217;s never been so much good wine in the world as there is now.<\/p>\n<p>While one sector of the wine market sells its soul and makes grim spoofulated fare, there&#8217;s also a large band of producers who are making characterful terroir wines &#8211; wines of personality, that reflect a sense of place, and aim at elegance and definition rather than power and weight.<br \/>\nAcross the world, new terroirs are being prospected. Natural wines are growing in popularity. The by-product of the high (and increasing) prices of fine wines is that more producers can justify the high financial outlay in making serious wine.<\/p>\n<p>I taste and drink exciting wines on a daily basis, and I&#8217;m really pleased that it&#8217;s almost impossible for any one person to keep track of what&#8217;s going on in the wine world these days.<\/p>\n<p>So there are many reasons to be positive. Let&#8217;s keep this positivity the emphasis. [Pictured is the new Talinay vineyard of Tabali, in Limari, with limestone soils, near the coast.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all the moaning about the internationalization of wine styles (something that I am concerned about), I need to point out that there&#8217;s never been so much good wine in&#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-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","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=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2352,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}