{"id":3341,"date":"2011-08-30T09:19:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T09:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2011-08-30T09:19:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T09:19:51","slug":"touronio-an-impressive-douro-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/portugal\/touronio-an-impressive-douro-red","title":{"rendered":"Tour\u00f3nio, an impressive Douro red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/touronio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3345\" title=\"touronio\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/touronio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/touronio.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/touronio-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/touronio-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/touronio-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love the Douro, and I&#8217;m delighted to be going out there again in a couple of weeks. So much is happening, in the relatively new region for table wines. Here&#8217;s a new wine from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quintadetourais.com\">Quinta de Tourais<\/a> in the Baixo Corgo &#8211; the first bit you come to arriving from Porto, which is also the cooler, more rainy bit. This is a very good wine, and it&#8217;s not particularly expensive. (Online, I found the 2008 for \u00a313 from the ever excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesampler.co.uk\/store\/product\/5864\/Touronio-Douro-2008\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Sampler<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tour\u00f3nio 2009 Douro<\/strong><br \/>\nA blend of 40% Touriga Nacional, 40% Tinta Roriz, 15% Sousao and 5% Tinto Cao. Distinctively packaged in an enamelled bottle. Sweet, appealing cherry and plum fruit nose with a fresh, mineral streak adding interest. The palate is supple and midweight with sweet cherry and plum fruit. Well balanced with some mineral notes and a sense of elegance, showing spice and grip under the fruit. 90\/100 (UK agent Indigo Wines)<\/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 love the Douro, and I&#8217;m delighted to be going out there again in a couple of weeks. So much is happening, in the relatively new region for table wines&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,7],"tags":[362,350],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-douro","category-portugal","tag-douro","tag-portugal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","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=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3346,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}