{"id":3727,"date":"2011-10-27T21:09:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T21:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2011-10-27T21:09:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T21:09:34","slug":"the-liberator-an-impressive-south-african-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/syrah\/the-liberator-an-impressive-south-african-red","title":{"rendered":"The Liberator, an impressive South African red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMGP1013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3732\" title=\"IMGP1013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMGP1013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMGP1013.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMGP1013-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMGP1013-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMGP1013-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Richard Kelley MW popped round tonight to drop off a mixed case of Cotat. He also brought along two wines that he has sourced himself from South Africa and which have been bottled under the name &#8216;The Liberator&#8217;. These are small parcels of wines from illustrious producers at very good prices, and the sources must remain confidential. I popped open the red tonight, and it&#8217;s delicious.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Liberator &#8216;The Francophile #1&#8217; Syrah 2009 Voor Paardeberg, South Africa<\/strong><br \/>\n14.5% alcohol. Deep coloured, this is a dense, ripe, focused red wine with structured blackberry and black cherry fruit. Concentrated with nice grippy tannins and a rich mouthfeel, this is a lovely robust expression of Syrah, with really dense fruit. Nicely savoury. 90\/100 (Available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewinesociety.com\/shop\/shop.aspx?section=pd&amp;pl=WSA&amp;pd=SA7021&amp;pc=AAAZ&amp;prl=STD\" target=\"_blank\">The Wine Society<\/a> in the UK priced \u00a39.95)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Kelley MW popped round tonight to drop off a mixed case of Cotat. He also brought along two wines that he has sourced himself from South Africa and which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,11],"tags":[374,353],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-africa","category-syrah","tag-south-africa","tag-syrah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","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=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3733,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions\/3733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}