{"id":4248,"date":"2012-01-30T22:32:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T22:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=4248"},"modified":"2012-01-30T22:32:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T22:32:22","slug":"a-decent-affordable-carignan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/languedoc\/a-decent-affordable-carignan","title":{"rendered":"A decent, affordable Carignan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMGP5395.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4253\" title=\"paul mas carignan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMGP5395.jpg\" alt=\"paul mas carignan\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMGP5395.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMGP5395-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMGP5395-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMGP5395-400x274.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a39 used to be quite a lot to spend on a bottle of wine. Now, with duty increases and exchange rates, it really isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying that \u00a39 is a trifling amount; rather, that to get a decent bottle of wine, you need to spend a bit more than you used to. We&#8217;ve got too comfortable with \u00a35-6 as a price range for decent (if quite selective) drinking, but I remember this being my sweet spot for everyday wine 18 years ago. Things have changed.<\/p>\n<p>This is a Carignan from the south of France that really delivers, in a modern, fruit-forward style. It&#8217;s not profound, but it is really tasty and well made, showing good balance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Mas Estate Carignan Vieilles Vignes Savignac Vineyard 2010 Pays l&#8217;Herault IGP, France<br \/>\n<\/strong>13.5% alcohol. Dense but fresh with a spicy frame to the sweet berry fruits. Very smooth and cultured with ripe black fruit character and some peppery, grippy tannins right on the finish. Stylish and delicious; modern but balanced. 90\/100 (\u00a38.99 Majestic)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a39 used to be quite a lot to spend on a bottle of wine. Now, with duty increases and exchange rates, it really isn&#8217;t. I&#8217;m not saying that \u00a39 is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[189],"class_list":["post-4248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languedoc","tag-carignan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248","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=4248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4255,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions\/4255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}