{"id":4374,"date":"2012-02-22T23:39:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T23:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2012-02-22T23:39:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T23:39:55","slug":"remirez-de-ganuza-a-top-rioja-property-shows-that-modern-can-be-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/spain\/remirez-de-ganuza-a-top-rioja-property-shows-that-modern-can-be-good","title":{"rendered":"Remirez de Ganuza, a top Rioja property, shows that modern can be good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/remirezdeganuza.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4379\" title=\"remirezdeganuza\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/remirezdeganuza.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regular readers will know that a winery that employs solely 100% new oak (with 20% American), and selects as far as taking the tips off grape bunches (these are less ripe, usually), is probably not going to be my favourite sort of producer. But wine is complicated. You can&#8217;t be dogmatic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4380\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4380\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMGP9539.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4380\" title=\"IMGP9539\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMGP9539.jpg\" alt=\"grapes\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMGP9539.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMGP9539-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMGP9539-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMGP9539-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recently harvested grapes - the small crystals visible on some are sulfur dioxide<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Remirez de Ganuza makes excellent wines. I&#8217;ve just written up a visit to this star producer in Spain&#8217;s Rioja, and I have to say that the wines were superb, even though they were made in a modern, interventionist style. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/wineanorak.com\/spain\/rioja5_remirezdeganuza.htm\" target=\"_blank\">read the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/remirezdeganuza4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4381\" title=\"remirezdeganuza4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/remirezdeganuza4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Generally, I\u00a0believe that working more naturally is a\u00a0good way to make wines that express their terroirs better. But there are exceptions, and if you are dogmatic then you miss these exceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers will know that a winery that employs solely 100% new oak (with 20% American), and selects as far as taking the tips off grape bunches (these are less&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,40],"tags":[402,371],"class_list":["post-4374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rioja","category-spain","tag-rioja","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374","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=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4382,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions\/4382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}