{"id":2741,"date":"2011-05-13T10:01:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T10:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2011-05-13T10:01:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T10:01:07","slug":"the-natural-wine-fair-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/the-natural-wine-fair-in-london","title":{"rendered":"The Natural Wine Fair in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A last minute plug for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenaturalwinefair.com\/\">Natural Wine Fair<\/a>, which is coming to London from Sunday to Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>This is a brilliant opportunity to try some fabulously diverse and interesting wines. It should also be great fun.<\/p>\n<p>Aside: I&#8217;m getting really really bored with journalists who feel they have to warn people about natural wines. The standard line is thus: &#8216;Natural wines can be really good and I&#8217;ve tasted some nice ones, but too many of them are showing wine faults. Beware!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>This is silly. I&#8217;ll be totally honest \u00a0&#8211; I think some people have such narrow palates that when they encounter anything a little different they just dismiss it. And why warn people? Can&#8217;t they make their own minds up? Tell me about a tasting where there are no bad wines: these tastings just don&#8217;t exist. But, for example, I haven&#8217;t read many journos warn consumers about the possibility of finding bad wines at this weekend&#8217;s Decanter New World Wine Encounter. Also, what exactly defines a wine fault? A bit of reduction? This would rule most fine white Burgundy out. Some brett? Then let&#8217;s give up on Bordeaux.<\/p>\n<p>Rant over. Some of my great wine experiences have been with natural wines. \u00a0If you have an open palate and open mind, you could have a great time at this fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A last minute plug for the Natural Wine Fair, which is coming to London from Sunday to Tuesday. This is a brilliant opportunity to try some fabulously diverse and interesting&#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-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","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=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2749,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions\/2749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}