{"id":3145,"date":"2011-07-21T19:52:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T19:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2011-07-21T19:52:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T19:52:17","slug":"northern-rhone-series-6-gilles-barge-clos-des-martinets-st-joseph-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/syrah\/northern-rhone-series-6-gilles-barge-clos-des-martinets-st-joseph-2001","title":{"rendered":"Northern Rhone series 6, Gilles Barge Clos des Martinets St Joseph 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMGP0680.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3152\" title=\"IMGP0680\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMGP0680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMGP0680.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMGP0680-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMGP0680-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMGP0680-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t make whole-case purchases all that often. Usually I find that 12 of a particular wine is a little too much. 6 is usually better. But this is the last bottle of a case purchase I made that I was very pleased with. I&#8217;ve just looked up my<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com\/nrhone2001.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> report on the tasting at Bibendum<\/a> in 2003, which tells me that this cost \u00a310 a bottle all in. It&#8217;s a wonderfully authentic, slightly rustic Northern Rhone Syrah that aged nicely and now is just beginning to decline a little. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com\/gilles_barge.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Gilles Barge<\/a> is an utterly reliable producer making really authentic Cote-Rotie, albeit in a traditional and sometimes (nicely) challenging style.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gilles Barge Clos des Martinets St Joseph 2001<br \/>\n<\/strong>Aromatic, stinky and savoury with notes of blood, iron, meat and spice. The palate shows bright berry fruits but also distinctive savoury notes of blood\/iron, meat, olives and earth. Really distinctive and expressive, this is an old-fashioned, savoury expression of northern Rhone Syrah: there&#8217;s no doubting its origin. 91\/100<\/p>\n<p>Find this wine with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/index.lml?referring_site=WAN\" target=\"_blank\">wine-searcher.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t make whole-case purchases all that often. Usually I find that 12 of a particular wine is a little too much. 6 is usually better. But this is the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,14,11],"tags":[376,354,353],"class_list":["post-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-northern-rhone","category-syrah","tag-france","tag-northern-rhone","tag-syrah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145","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=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3153,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions\/3153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}