{"id":655,"date":"2010-05-26T13:12:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T13:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=655"},"modified":"2010-05-26T13:12:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T13:12:25","slug":"jean-claude-mas-is-a-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/france\/jean-claude-mas-is-a-genius","title":{"rendered":"Jean-Claude Mas is a genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMGP04671.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-657\" title=\"IMGP0467\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMGP04671.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMGP04671.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMGP04671-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMGP04671-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMGP04671-400x311.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just so impressed by the wines of Jean-Claude Mas, from France&#8217;s Languedoc. Five of his wines were in yesterday&#8217;s Asda Press tasting, and they were all brilliant &#8211; he can even make Merlot taste interesting.<\/p>\n<p>The wines show lovely fruit purity, varietal typicity and great balance. They&#8217;re modern but not spoofy. And they&#8217;re affordable.<\/p>\n<p>This wine is remarkable for the price. If France had 20 Jean-Claudes, they&#8217;d have no worries about their wine industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mas de Mas Corbieres 2009 Languedoc, France<br \/>\n<\/strong>14.5% alcohol. A beautifully modern, expressive take on Corbieres, showing sweet, rich blackberry and plum fruit on the nose with some lushness and chocolatey richness. The palate is smooth and concentrated with lush, dense blackberry fruit together with grainy tannins and some silkiness. 90\/100 (\u00a37.99 Majestic)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just so impressed by the wines of Jean-Claude Mas, from France&#8217;s Languedoc. Five of his wines were in yesterday&#8217;s Asda Press tasting, and they were all brilliant &#8211; he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,79],"tags":[376,384],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-languedoc","tag-france","tag-languedoc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}