{"id":5247,"date":"2012-07-05T18:25:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T18:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=5247"},"modified":"2012-07-05T18:25:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T18:25:45","slug":"my-first-look-at-priorat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/spain\/my-first-look-at-priorat","title":{"rendered":"My first look at Priorat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMGP9913.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5257\" title=\"IMGP9913\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMGP9913.jpg\" alt=\"Priorat\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Had my first visit to Priorat yesterday. Remarkable how similar the soils are to the Douro, with schist, which here they call licorella.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMGP98851.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5259\" title=\"IMGP9885\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMGP98851.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The similarity is also helped by the fact that there are some steep slopes, with terracing needed.\u00a0I was visiting with Torres, so I saw their two sites: one, a large new-ish vineyard at Porrera, at around 500 metres, the second near the winery at Lloar, near Gratallops, at 300 m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMGP9903.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5260\" title=\"IMGP9903\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMGP9903.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a really interesting region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had my first visit to Priorat yesterday. Remarkable how similar the soils are to the Douro, with schist, which here they call licorella. The similarity is also helped by 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":[40],"tags":[43,371],"class_list":["post-5247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","tag-priorat","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247","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=5247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5261,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions\/5261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}