{"id":4208,"date":"2012-01-23T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=4208"},"modified":"2012-01-23T22:53:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T22:53:57","slug":"lunch-at-la-trompette-with-scali-pinotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/south-africa\/lunch-at-la-trompette-with-scali-pinotage","title":{"rendered":"Lunch at La Trompette with Scali Pinotage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/la-trompette-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4213\" title=\"la trompette 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/la-trompette-1.jpg\" alt=\"la trompette pork belly\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/la-trompette-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/la-trompette-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/la-trompette-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/la-trompette-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lunch at La Trompette today, the Nigel Platts-Martin restaurant out in the wilds of Chiswick, west London.<\/p>\n<p>It was very good indeed. Starter: smoked haddock and creamed leeks with grain mustard, poached egg and toasted crumbs. It was brilliant, with strong but balanced flavours. To match? <strong>Adi Badenhorst&#8217;s Secateurs Chenin Blanc 2010 Swartland, South Africa<\/strong>, at a very reasonable \u00a326 on the list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/scali-pinotage-2006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4214\" title=\"scali pinotage 2006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/scali-pinotage-2006.jpg\" alt=\"Scali Pinotage 2006\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/scali-pinotage-2006.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/scali-pinotage-2006-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/scali-pinotage-2006-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/scali-pinotage-2006-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Main: roast middle white pork with morteau sausage, green beans, fondant potato and trompettes. Again, lovely rich flavours, and it just worked so well. Thoroughly delicious. To match? <strong>Scali Pinotage 2006 Voor Paardeberg, South Africa<\/strong>. Now this was superb: it is a Pinotage that doesn&#8217;t have Pinotage character, which is a good thing. I guess with a few year&#8217;s bottle age like this it is closest in flavour profile to a top Chateauneuf, with rich, warmly spicy flavours and focused cherry and berry fruits.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latrompette.co.uk\/data\/menu.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">how is this for a wine list<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lunch at La Trompette today, the Nigel Platts-Martin restaurant out in the wilds of Chiswick, west London. It was very good indeed. Starter: smoked haddock and creamed leeks with grain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,49],"tags":[187,383,374],"class_list":["post-4208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","category-south-africa","tag-pinotage","tag-restaurants","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208","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=4208"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4216,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions\/4216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}