{"id":2934,"date":"2011-06-14T12:43:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T12:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2011-06-14T12:43:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T12:43:50","slug":"dinner-at-daniels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/dinner-at-daniels","title":{"rendered":"Dinner at Daniel&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a nice dinner on Saturday night with colleagues Will Lyons and Joe Wadsack at the home of Daniel Primack of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aroundwine.co.uk\/\">Around Wine<\/a>. I wouldn\u2019t be so indiscreet as to recount the topics of the lively conversation, but I wanted to post on the excellent wines we enjoyed freshly plucked from Daniel\u2019s well stocked Eurocave.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cape Point Isliedh 2006 South Africa<br \/>\n<\/strong> Regular readers will know of my admiration for Duncan Savage\u2019s Cape Point wines. This, a blend of Sauvignon and Semillon fermented in oak, is drinking beautifully now. There\u2019s a nice combination of green herbal notes with grapefruit freshness, in a very sophisticated, elegant context. Everything just holds together so well here. 93\/100<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tyrrell\u2019s Vat 1 Semillon 2002 Hunter Valley, Australia<br \/>\n<\/strong> Taut, fresh and precise, and still just a baby. Very bright with just a hint of creamy, dairy character under the intense citrus fruits. Yet to develop the toasty aged characters that Hunter Semillon is so famous for. This was cork sealed. 92\/100<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ch\u00e2teau Haut-Bages Lib\u00e9ral 2001 Pauillac, Bordeaux<br \/>\n<\/strong> This is why we buy Bordeaux. Classic and elegant with lovely blackcurrant and cherry fruit. It\u2019s fresh with a gravelly, savoury edge. Nicely elegant style with good acidity and just 12.5% alcohol. Mineral, fine and lovely. 94\/100<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michel Torino Altimvs 2005 Cafayete, Argentina<br \/>\n<\/strong> Blow me down! An elegant wine from Argentina! This blend of Cabernet, Malbec, Bonarda, Tannat and Syrah is ripe but balanced with ripe berry fruits and good structure. It\u2019s also quite mineral, without any over-ripeness, and fresh berry and cherry fruit playing the dominant role. Quite a serious effort. 93\/100<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fritz Lang Gew\u00fcrztraminer Beerenauslese 1999 Neusiedlersee, Austria<br \/>\n<\/strong> Wonderfully intense, sweet and viscous with lovely grape and apricot fruit, as well as spicy, nutty, waxy complexity. Lovely depth and length. 93\/100<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a nice dinner on Saturday night with colleagues Will Lyons and Joe Wadsack at the home of Daniel Primack of Around Wine. I wouldn\u2019t be so indiscreet as to&#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-2934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934","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=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2940,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions\/2940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}