{"id":5470,"date":"2012-08-19T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=5470"},"modified":"2012-08-19T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T20:55:00","slug":"celebrating-the-wine-blog-awards-with-taittinger-comtes-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/champagne\/celebrating-the-wine-blog-awards-with-taittinger-comtes-2000","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Wine Blog Awards with Taittinger Comtes 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMGP8674.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5483\" title=\"taittingercomtes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMGP8674.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMGP8674.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMGP8674-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMGP8674-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMGP8674-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was thrilled to find out today that I won an award. I was shortlisted in the &#8216;Best Overall Wine Blog&#8217; category in the <a href=\"http:\/\/wineblogawards.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wine Blog Awards<\/a>, and the results were announced at the Wine Bloggers Conference in Portland yesterday evening: amazingly, I won.<\/p>\n<p>So to celebrate, I cracked open a bottle of Champagne. Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs 2000. It&#8217;s just lovely. I recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com\/champagne\/taittinger_comtes_de_champagne.htm\" target=\"_blank\">tasted through a vertical <\/a>of Comtes, and it confirmed just how good this wine is. So it was great to actually drink a bottle, which, at 12 years of age, is just beginning to show what it&#8217;s capable of.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs 2000<\/strong><br \/>\n12% alcohol. Full yellow colour. Rich nose of\u00a0toast, pear and peach with some vanilla and spice. Quite exotic. The palate is richly fruited with a fine, toasty, spicy\u00a0savoury undercurrent as well as citrus, pear and\u00a0apricot fruit. Finishes taut with a subtle\u00a0note of matchstick reduction. Quite vinous. 95\/100<\/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>I was thrilled to find out today that I won an award. I was shortlisted in the &#8216;Best Overall Wine Blog&#8217; category in the Wine Blog Awards, and the results&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[360],"class_list":["post-5470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-champagne","tag-champagne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470","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=5470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5484,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}