{"id":4012,"date":"2011-12-17T00:11:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T00:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=4012"},"modified":"2011-12-17T00:11:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T00:11:46","slug":"domaine-of-the-bee-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/france\/domaine-of-the-bee-2009","title":{"rendered":"Domaine of the Bee 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMGP4691-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4017\" title=\"domaine of the bee\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMGP4691-2.jpg\" alt=\"domaine of the bee\" width=\"500\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMGP4691-2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMGP4691-2-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMGP4691-2-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMGP4691-2-400x260.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In August 2010 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com\/wineblog\/grenache\/domaine-of-the-bee-a-new-high-end-roussillon-wine\" target=\"_blank\">I reviewed the first two releases<\/a> of a new high-end domaine in the Roussillon region of France &#8211; Domaine of the Bee. It&#8217;s the personal project of Justin Howard-Sneyd of Direct Wines. He recently sent me his latest release, the 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Now this is in a similar mould to the first two &#8211; quite ripe and generous, with high alcohol. But it still has quite good definition and avoids being soupy and dead-fruity. I still think the wine could be better still if they could harvest before the sugars (and thus potential alcohol) is so high. But for many, this style is spot on. Taste is personal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Domaine of the Bee 2009 IGP Cotes Catalanes, France<\/strong><br \/>\n15% alcohol. Ripe and quite alcoholic but with nice definition to the lush balckberry and black cherry fruit. Nice fruit purity and plenty of concentration. Certainly pushing the ripeness boundary but gets away with it, and the sweet, lush liqueur-like fruit is really seductive. Reminds me of a top Alentejo wine with its fruit profile, and a delicious wine for now and near-term drinking. 91\/100 (\u00a320 per bottle or \u00a3200 per case &#8211; \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.domaineofthebee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">website here<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2010 I reviewed the first two releases of a new high-end domaine in the Roussillon region of France &#8211; Domaine of the Bee. It&#8217;s the personal project of&#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],"tags":[376,56],"class_list":["post-4012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","tag-france","tag-roussillon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012","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=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}