{"id":4172,"date":"2012-01-20T00:08:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T00:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2012-01-20T00:09:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T00:09:27","slug":"syrah-and-pinot-noir-and-why-i-love-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/new-zealand\/syrah-and-pinot-noir-and-why-i-love-them","title":{"rendered":"Syrah and Pinot Noir, and why I love them"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two wines tonight, shared with friends, which really worked.<\/p>\n

The first, a northern Rhone Syrah from the Cornas appellation, but bottled as Vin de Pays. It’s the Les Collines de Laure Syrah 2010<\/strong> from Jean-Luc Colombo who I met last week. I bought a case of this (direct from Hatch Mansfield because retailers haven’t yet switched vintage, and because I hadn’t tried the 2009). Guide price is \u00a310.<\/p>\n

It’s fresh and vibrant with lovely meaty, olive-tinged black cherry and plum fruit with freshness and some floral aromatics. Keen acidity keeps this vital and delicious, but it is not lacking rich fruit.<\/p>\n

The second is Mount Koinga Pinot Noir 2009<\/strong> from Central Otago, New Zealand. This is an exclusive bottling by the Wine Society<\/a>, made by Prophet’s Rock. It isn’t cheap (\u00a317.50), but it’s lovely. It’s more elegant than many from the region, with a silky smooth texture to the sweet cherry and berry fruit, showing admirable purity. No rough edges, and a hint of seriousness here.<\/p>\n

Syrah and Pinot Noir, when grown in relatively cool climates and handled sympathetically, have an affinity. I love them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two wines tonight, shared with friends, which really worked. The first, a northern Rhone Syrah from the Cornas appellation, but bottled as Vin de Pays. It’s the Les Collines de…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14,60,11],"tags":[21,352,354,378,353],"class_list":["post-4172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-zealand","category-northern-rhone","category-pinot-noir","category-syrah","tag-central-otago","tag-new-zealand","tag-northern-rhone","tag-pinot-noir","tag-syrah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172","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=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4182,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions\/4182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}