{"id":4339,"date":"2012-02-17T22:32:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T22:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=4339"},"modified":"2012-02-17T22:32:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T22:32:07","slug":"laithwaites-theale-vineyard-sparkling-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/sparkling-wine\/laithwaites-theale-vineyard-sparkling-wine","title":{"rendered":"Laithwaites Theale Vineyard Sparkling Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMGP5690-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4352\" title=\"laithwaites theale vineyard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMGP5690-1.jpg\" alt=\"laithwaites theale vineyard\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMGP5690-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMGP5690-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMGP5690-1-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMGP5690-1-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was impressed by this. It&#8217;s a limited-production sparkling wine from a vineyard at the headquarters of Laithwaites, one of the UK&#8217;s most successful wine merchants, located in Theale, near Reading, Berkshire.<\/p>\n<p>There are just 704 Chardonnay vines here, planted in 1998. The 2006 vintage, which I am tasting here, was harvested on October 3rd and made at Ridgeview Vineyard in Sussex.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laithwaites Theale Vineyard Blanc de Blancs 2006 England<\/strong><br \/>\n12% alcohol. Super stuff. Fresh with nice acidity but also a lovely rounded character and some toasty richness. Good purity here. Blind, I&#8217;d have been heading straight to Champagne here. A really stylish wine. 90\/100 (\u00a322.99 Laithwaites)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was impressed by this. It&#8217;s a limited-production sparkling wine from a vineyard at the headquarters of Laithwaites, one of the UK&#8217;s most successful wine merchants, located in Theale, near&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,71],"tags":[394,382],"class_list":["post-4339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england","category-sparkling-wine","tag-england","tag-sparkling-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339","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=4339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4353,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions\/4353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}