{"id":24284,"date":"2019-08-16T14:23:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T14:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=24284"},"modified":"2019-08-16T14:23:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T14:23:21","slug":"lunch-with-paillard-solaia-and-biondi-santi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/champagne\/lunch-with-paillard-solaia-and-biondi-santi","title":{"rendered":"Lunch with Paillard, Solaia and Biondi-Santi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24286\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/brunopaillard-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/brunopaillard.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/brunopaillard-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/brunopaillard-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Had a nice lunch in the garden with Robin and Nikolai. I brought Champagne, and they stepped things up a notch with two famous Italians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Champagne Bruno Paillard Assemblage 2009 France<\/strong><br \/>\n50% Chardonnay, 50% Pinot Noir, 20% barrel fermented. Aged seven years on lees, then 18 months in bottle (disgorged September 2017) before release. Dosage 5 g\/litre. Quite a rich style with toast, spice, apple and citrus. Lively with good precision and a nice acid line. A really nicely balanced wine, offering opulence as well as freshness. 93\/100<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24287\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_1892-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_1892.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_1892-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_1892-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Marchese Antinori Solaia 2010 IGT Toscana, Italy<\/strong><br \/>\n14.5% alcohol. 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Sangiovese, 5% Cabernet Franc. Aromatic, gravelly, ashy blackcurrant fruit with some fine spiciness. Hints of tar. Quite new world in style with sleek black fruits dominating, but it\u2019s a finessed new world style. Floral and expressive despite the ripeness. 93\/100<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24285\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/biondisanti-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/biondisanti.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/biondisanti-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/biondisanti-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Biondi Santi Brunello di Montalcino 1998 Tuscany, Italy<\/strong><br \/>\n13.5% alcohol. So supple and fine. Detailed and elegant with some appealing spicy notes, and hints of tar, herbs and iodine. Fine spicy notes, too. Such precision to this wine. 95\/100<\/p>\n<p>Find these wines with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/index.lml?referring_site=WAN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wine-searcher.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a nice lunch in the garden with Robin and Nikolai. I brought Champagne, and they stepped things up a notch with two famous Italians. Champagne Bruno Paillard Assemblage 2009&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,39],"tags":[360,201],"class_list":["post-24284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-champagne","category-italy","tag-champagne","tag-tuscany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24284","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=24284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24289,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24284\/revisions\/24289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}