{"id":4364,"date":"2012-02-20T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=4364"},"modified":"2012-02-21T08:17:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T08:17:21","slug":"voyager-estate-shiraz-2009-margaret-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/syrah\/voyager-estate-shiraz-2009-margaret-river","title":{"rendered":"Voyager Estate Shiraz 2009 Margaret River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/voyager-estate-shiraz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4369\" title=\"voyager estate shiraz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/voyager-estate-shiraz.jpg\" alt=\"Voyager Estate Shiraz 2009 Margaret River, Australia\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/voyager-estate-shiraz.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/voyager-estate-shiraz-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/voyager-estate-shiraz-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/voyager-estate-shiraz-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been drinking this young Margaret River Shiraz for the last couple of evenings, and it&#8217;s impressive. Normally, you&#8217;d associate this rather beautiful part of Western Australia with Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux varieties, but it can also do good things with Syrah\/Shiraz. It&#8217;s ripe and sweetly fruited, but there&#8217;s also freshness, definition and restraint. It needs time to show its best, I reckon.<\/p>\n<p>The splash of Viognier is evident, once you know it is there, lifting the aromatics a bit and adding some pretty, sweet fruit notes to the palate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Voyager Estate Shiraz 2009 Margaret River, Australia<\/strong><br \/>\n13.9% alcohol. Deep coloured. Sweet blackberry and black cherry fruit nose with a floral lift, and hints of clove and spice. The palate is dense and quite fresh with bright, pure fruit and fine, gravelly tannins. Seductive but well defined, straddling the new and old worlds in style. Sweet, ripe, approachable but fresh and with good potential for further development. 91\/100 (\u00a321.17 Justerini &amp; Brooks;\u00a0 the 2008 is \u00a315.95 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winedirect.co.uk\/product_info.php?products_id=4505\" target=\"_blank\">Wine Direct<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been drinking this young Margaret River Shiraz for the last couple of evenings, and it&#8217;s impressive. Normally, you&#8217;d associate this rather beautiful part of Western Australia with Cabernet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,11],"tags":[51,181],"class_list":["post-4364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-syrah","tag-shiraz","tag-western-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364","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=4364"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4371,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions\/4371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}