{"id":2576,"date":"2011-04-11T18:39:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T18:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2011-04-11T18:39:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T18:39:35","slug":"a-convincing-portuguese-pinot-noir-but-will-it-get-approval-from-the-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/portugal\/a-convincing-portuguese-pinot-noir-but-will-it-get-approval-from-the-authorities","title":{"rendered":"A convincing Portuguese Pinot Noir, but will it get approval from the authorities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1110599.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2582\" title=\"P1110599\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1110599.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1110599.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1110599-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1110599-150x114.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1110599-400x304.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A while back I reported on a visit to Portuguese winery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com\/portugal\/quintadesantana.htm\">Quinta de Sant&#8217;ana<\/a> in the Lisboa region. I was particularly impressed by their Pinot Noir, which showed lovely elegance and varietal character.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s in bottle, and looking really good. However, they&#8217;ve run into problems with the authorities, who think the wine is too light. But this is Pinot Noir! It&#8217;s not supposed to be a rich, heavy, dark-coloured wine. It will be a shame if this has to be bottled as a table wine &#8211; although the recent rule changes mean that table wines can now carry the vintage and grape variety, they won&#8217;t be able to label this Quinta de Sant&#8217;ana.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quinta de Sant&#8217;ana Pinot Noir 2009 Lisboa, Portugal<br \/>\n<\/strong>A lovely, varietally true Pinot Noir, showing fresh cherry fruit with a subtly green sappy character. It&#8217;s nicely textured with lovely freshness and good ripeness. There are subtle spicy notes and some fine, grippy tannins in the background. A bit like a Marlborough Pinot Noir in style, but very fine. 91\/100<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I reported on a visit to Portuguese winery Quinta de Sant&#8217;ana in the Lisboa region. I was particularly impressed by their Pinot Noir, which showed lovely elegance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,7],"tags":[378,350],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pinot-gris","category-portugal","tag-pinot-noir","tag-portugal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","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=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions\/2583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}