{"id":3222,"date":"2011-08-07T17:27:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T17:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=3222"},"modified":"2011-08-08T09:09:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T09:09:28","slug":"northern-rhone-series-9-delas-les-challeys-st-joseph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/syrah\/northern-rhone-series-9-delas-les-challeys-st-joseph","title":{"rendered":"Northern Rhone series 9, Delas Les Challeys St Joseph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMGP0739.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3228\" title=\"delas les challeys saint joseph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMGP0739.jpg\" alt=\"delas les challeys saint joseph\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMGP0739.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMGP0739-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMGP0739-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMGP0739-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Continuing my northern Rhone series, I&#8217;m sticking with St Joseph. It&#8217;s an appellation with a reputation for inconsistency, but there are clearly some very good terroirs here. This is a cracking wine: fresh, natural, bright and edgy. Delas are a negociant who seem to be on good form at the moment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Delas Freres St Joseph &#8216;Les Challeys&#8217; 2008 <\/strong><br \/>\n13% alcohol. Lovely stuff. Fresh, bright, natural, peppery and fine. Lovely cherry fruit and good acidity, as well as nice grippy structure. It&#8217;s quite light and elegant with lovely northern Rhone Syrah character. Fresh and vital, this is drinking superbly now and will probably drink well for another five, with its cherry and raspberry fruit and delicious pepperiness. 93\/100 (\u00a314.99 Sainsbury&#8217;s)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing my northern Rhone series, I&#8217;m sticking with St Joseph. It&#8217;s an appellation with a reputation for inconsistency, but there are clearly some very good terroirs here. This is a&#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":[354,353],"class_list":["post-3222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-northern-rhone","category-syrah","tag-northern-rhone","tag-syrah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222","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=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3232,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions\/3232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}