{"id":4718,"date":"2012-04-19T20:38:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T20:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=4718"},"modified":"2012-04-19T21:33:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T21:33:34","slug":"sad-news-about-david-booth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/sad-news-about-david-booth","title":{"rendered":"Sad news about David Booth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Picture-135.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4724\" title=\"david booth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Picture-135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Picture-135.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Picture-135-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Picture-135-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Picture-135-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very sad to learn today about the death of David Booth. A British expat, he turned to wine after a successful army career, and became a well known viticultural consultant in Portugal. His client list included\u00a0Terras de Alter, Azamor, Vida Nova and\u00a0Vale de Algares, and he also had his own project, Alentejo winery Fita Preta, which was a collaboration with winemaker Ant\u00f3nio Ma\u00e7anita.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know David all that well, but whenever I spoke with him he was engaging and charming. His Fita Preta wines impressed, as did the lower priced second label &#8216;Sexy&#8217;. And he\u00a0featured heavily in the ripeness chapter in Authentic Wine, explaining clearly the sorts of viticultural interventions that could help achieve full ripeness at sane alcohol levels.<\/p>\n<p>David was just 47, and died of a heart attack.\u00a0This is the only picture I have of him, which\u00a0I took at\u00a0the 2007 International Wine Challenge awards dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very sad to learn today about the death of David Booth. A British expat, he turned to wine after a successful army career, and became a well known viticultural consultant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718","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=4718"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4726,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions\/4726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}