{"id":4974,"date":"2012-05-24T23:17:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T23:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=4974"},"modified":"2012-05-24T23:17:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T23:17:38","slug":"time-for-some-provence-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/france\/time-for-some-provence-rose","title":{"rendered":"Time for some Provence rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMGP8206.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4979\" title=\"IMGP8206\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMGP8206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMGP8206.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMGP8206-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMGP8206-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMGP8206-400x321.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So we skipped straight from winter into summer. Here in the UK, spring was a no-show. It got bumped.<\/p>\n<p>For the last two days we&#8217;ve been enjoying temperatures in the high 20s. Very nice.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to get out the rose. Pink wines are a bit of a strange category for wine geeks. They are what I term functional wines: they do a job.<\/p>\n<p>They are rarely serious, but they are often enjoyable. I opened three tonight: all very good, and all from Provence. I like Provence rose because it is understated, textural and often a bit mineral. It has a savoury edge. It has moderate acidity.<\/p>\n<p>The Minuty Cotes de Provence &#8216;M&#8217; 2011 is \u00a312.95 from Roberson, the Berne Grande Recolte Rose 2010 is \u00a39.99 from Majestic and the Whispering Angel 2001 from Caves d&#8217;Esclans is \u00a315 from The Sampler and Roberson. The latter wine is from a producer trying to take rose very seriously. All three are delicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we skipped straight from winter into summer. Here in the UK, spring was a no-show. It got bumped. For the last two days we&#8217;ve been enjoying temperatures in the&#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],"tags":[376,408,409],"class_list":["post-4974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","tag-france","tag-provence","tag-rose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974","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=4974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4981,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions\/4981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}