{"id":6659,"date":"2013-02-07T18:26:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T18:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=6659"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:26:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T18:26:21","slug":"lunch-at-caravan-exmouth-market-with-seresin-pinot-palacios-priorat-and-camden-pale-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/restaurants\/lunch-at-caravan-exmouth-market-with-seresin-pinot-palacios-priorat-and-camden-pale-ale","title":{"rendered":"Lunch at Caravan, Exmouth Market, with Seresin Pinot, Palacios Priorat and Camden Pale Ale"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Had a lunch worth commenting on at Caravan in Exmouth Market<\/a>\u00a0yesterday. It’s an airy, informal dining room with a menu that focuses on creative small plates, and a cracking, perfectly formed wine list.<\/p>\n

Four of us ate well with a selection of the small plates, which were pretty imaginative and quite delicious – probably best described as modern and fusiony, borrowing lots of influences. The wine list isn’t a long one, but it is really creatively chosen, and not hideously expensive. Lots of fun in the \u00a330-50 range, albeit with a relatively limited by the glass selection.<\/p>\n

To drink? We began with a Pale Ale from the Camden Town brewery. It’s a beautiful drop: hoppy, savoury and lying somewhere between the exotic US style and the more restrained, less showy hoppiness found in\u00a0UK beers. A bargain at just \u00a32 for a half-pint.<\/p>\n

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Then it was time to head back to New\u00a0Zealand, if only for an hour or so:<\/p>\n

Seresin Leah Pinot Noir 2009 Marlborough, New Zealand<\/strong>
\nSweet cherry and plum fruit aromatics with a pleasant\u00a0hint of\u00a0sourness and some alluring spiciness. Fine, expressive and elegant on the palate with some non-fruit complexity as well as the sweet cherry fruit. Fine, with a supple, grainy structure. Complex, vital and alive, and tastes a bit natural, in a very good way. 94\/100 (\u00a348 on the list)<\/p>\n

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This was followed up with a trip to Spain:<\/p>\n

Alvaro Palacios\u00a0Camins del Priorat 2009 Spain<\/strong>
\nSweet blackcurrant fruit nose is rich, spicy and warm. There are hints of tar and violet, a well as some grippy tannins under the warm fruit. A rich, satisying expression of Priorat. 92\/100 (\u00a345 on the list)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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