{"id":5757,"date":"2012-10-04T21:36:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T21:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=5757"},"modified":"2012-10-04T21:36:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T21:36:08","slug":"newton-johnson-family-vineyards-pinot-noir-2011-a-five-star-pinot-from-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/south-africa\/newton-johnson-family-vineyards-pinot-noir-2011-a-five-star-pinot-from-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"Newton Johnson Family Vineyards Pinot Noir 2011, a five-star Pinot from South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newtonjohnsonpinotnoir-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5767\" title=\"newtonjohnsonpinotnoir-001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newtonjohnsonpinotnoir-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newtonjohnsonpinotnoir-001.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newtonjohnsonpinotnoir-001-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newtonjohnsonpinotnoir-001-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/newtonjohnsonpinotnoir-001-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of days ago I blogged on South African Pinot Noir, with a film interviewing some key winegrowers. Well here&#8217;s the wine that prompted me to make that film. I tracked down a bottle in London, having already tasted it at the Green Tie party at Cape Wine. It&#8217;s superb. Five star quality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Newton Johnson Family Vineyards Pinot Noir 2011 Upper Hemel en Aarde Valley, South Africa<\/strong><br \/>\n13.5% alcohol. Reassuringly pale cherry red colour. Superbly elegant with a silky texture and lovely red cherry fruit. There&#8217;s also a fine sappiness. The sweet pure fruit is countered by some savoury, spicy notes and tannic grip, but these are quite fine and there&#8217;s real balance and harmony here. I love the purity and elegance, and there&#8217;s real potential for development. 94\/100 (UK agent Bibendum Wine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibendum-wine.com\">www.bibendum-wine.com<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago I blogged on South African Pinot Noir, with a film interviewing some key winegrowers. Well here&#8217;s the wine that prompted me to make that film&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,49],"tags":[378,374],"class_list":["post-5757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pinot-noir","category-south-africa","tag-pinot-noir","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757","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=5757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5769,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757\/revisions\/5769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}