{"id":6384,"date":"2013-01-07T22:49:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T22:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=6384"},"modified":"2013-01-07T22:49:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T22:49:08","slug":"a-brilliant-tuscan-cabernet-franc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/italy\/a-brilliant-tuscan-cabernet-franc","title":{"rendered":"A brilliant Tuscan Cabernet Franc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMGP9671.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6389\" title=\"le macchiole paleo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMGP9671.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMGP9671.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMGP9671-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMGP9671-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMGP9671-400x263.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regular readers will know that I&#8217;m not really a super-Tuscan kind of guy. But here&#8217;s one that enticed, despite its ripeness and richness. It&#8217;s a varietal Cabernet Franc, and it&#8217;s lovely &#8211; although they don&#8217;t really give it away, at \u00a340-ish a bottle. Mind you, compared with its peer group, it&#8217;s well priced for such a serious effort. I finished the bottle in a couple of sittings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Le Macchiole Paleo 2008 IGT Toscana, Italy<\/strong><br \/>\n14.5% alcohol. A varietal Cabernet Franc. Ripe, rich, enticing and sophisticated with sleek, almost lush blackberry and black cherry fruit, with some spice and tar notes. There&#8217;s lovely complexity here: hints of gravel and chalk and chocolate, and good concentration, too. The ripe blackberry fruit fills the palate. Ripe, for sure, but also balanced and complex, with the potential to develop over a couple of decades, but there&#8217;s no reason not to drink it now. 94\/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>Regular readers will know that I&#8217;m not really a super-Tuscan kind of guy. But here&#8217;s one that enticed, despite its ripeness and richness. It&#8217;s a varietal Cabernet Franc, and it&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[387,370,201],"class_list":["post-6384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy","tag-cabernet-franc","tag-italy","tag-tuscany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384","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=6384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6390,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384\/revisions\/6390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}