{"id":485,"date":"2010-04-25T09:12:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T09:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2010-06-05T22:39:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T22:39:16","slug":"remarkable-saperavi-from-georgia-satrapezo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wine-reviews\/remarkable-saperavi-from-georgia-satrapezo","title":{"rendered":"Remarkable Saperavi from Georgia: Satrapezo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/satrapezo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-486\" title=\"satrapezo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/satrapezo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/satrapezo.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/satrapezo-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/satrapezo-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/satrapezo-400x296.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is astonishingly good: a thoroughly modern, but restrained and quite elegant, expression of the Saperavi grape variety. It&#8217;s made by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tewincel.com\" target=\"_blank\">Telavi<\/a> in Kakheti, the largest of the country&#8217;s wine regions, in the east, sandwiched between Azerbaijan and Russia. Aussie David Morrison consults here. This is their top wine, fermented in <em>quveri<\/em> (clay amphorae) buried in the ground, and then with malolactic in new French oak.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Telavi Satrapezo Saperavi 2006 Kakheti, Georgia<br \/>\n<\/strong>13.5% alcohol. Fermented in clay amphorae and then aged in new French oak; 6000 bottles made. This is wonderful stuff. Elegant yet rich cherry and berry fruit with a smooth texture and a subtle creaminess from the new oak. It&#8217;s a concentrated, dense wine that&#8217;s very sophisticated and modern, yet avoids being anonymous and &#8216;international&#8217;, with the oak playing a supporting role to the intense, focused fruit. Fresh and structured with lovely purity, this will probably age very well, although it is delicious now. A serious wine. 93\/100 (\u00a321.99 <a href=\"http:\/\/georgianwinesociety.co.uk\/red-wines\/satrapezo-telavi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Georgian Wine Society<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Find this wine with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/index.lml?referring_site=WAN\" target=\"_blank\">wine-searcher.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is astonishingly good: a thoroughly modern, but restrained and quite elegant, expression of the Saperavi grape variety. It&#8217;s made by Telavi in Kakheti, the largest of the country&#8217;s wine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-reviews","tag-georgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","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=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}