{"id":4477,"date":"2012-03-11T22:23:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T22:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=4477"},"modified":"2012-03-11T22:24:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T22:24:30","slug":"off-to-the-loire-with-a-nice-sancerre-as-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/france\/off-to-the-loire-with-a-nice-sancerre-as-preparation","title":{"rendered":"Off to the Loire, with a nice Sancerre as preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMGP5781.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4484\" title=\"IMGP5781\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMGP5781.jpg\" alt=\"laporte sancerre\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMGP5781.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMGP5781-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMGP5781-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMGP5781-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I am off to Tours with a crack team of tasters to judge some Sauvignon Blancs. I beleive that our crew includes Clarke, Metcalfe. Atkin and Harrop, among others. I&#8217;m lucky to be included!<\/p>\n<p>In preparation, I&#8217;m tasting a rather good Sancerre. It&#8217;s nicely packaged and deliciously full flavoured.<\/p>\n<p>Domaine Laporte Sancerre Le Rochoy 2010 Loire, France<br \/>\n13% alcohol. From a very flinty hillside. Fresh and intensely mineral with high acidity and grapefruit and lemon fruit. Concentrated, pure and piercing. A really impressive, bright, focused style of Sancerre. 91\/100 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jascots.co.uk\/\">Jascots<\/a>, although the wine is not yet on the website)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow I am off to Tours with a crack team of tasters to judge some Sauvignon Blancs. I beleive that our crew includes Clarke, Metcalfe. Atkin and Harrop, among others&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,81],"tags":[386,413,355],"class_list":["post-4477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-loire","tag-loire","tag-sancerre","tag-sauvignon-blanc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4477","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=4477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4485,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4477\/revisions\/4485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}