{"id":6786,"date":"2013-03-03T14:57:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T14:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=6786"},"modified":"2013-03-03T14:57:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T14:57:18","slug":"two-promising-rieslings-from-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/riesling\/two-promising-rieslings-from-chile","title":{"rendered":"Two promising Rieslings from Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMGP9997-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6791\" title=\"IMGP9997-001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMGP9997-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMGP9997-001.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMGP9997-001-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMGP9997-001-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMGP9997-001-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I may be in a minority, but I reckon Chile&#8217;s whites are a bit more interesting than reds at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>And Riesling, although it&#8217;s still quite rare here, could be particularly interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a contrasting pair that I&#8217;ve recently tried, from rather different terroirs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gran Valle de Niebla Reserve Riesling 2011 Bio Bio, Chile<\/strong><br \/>\nMade by Cono Sur, this is aromatic with fine citrussy notes, as well as floral, grapey and lychee characters. The palate is rich and balanced with a bit of sweetness and lovely rounded citrus fruit. Stylish, balanced and textured. 90\/100 (\u00a38.79 Laithwaites)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMGP9996-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6790\" title=\"IMGP9996-001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMGP9996-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMGP9996-001.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMGP9996-001-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMGP9996-001-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMGP9996-001-400x248.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vi\u00f1a Leyda Single Vineyard Neblina Riesling 2010 Leyda, Chile<\/strong><br \/>\nReally precise and limey, this is a laser-sharp bone-dry Riesling with high acidity and lovely purity. Lots of citrussy fruit with nervous acidity and great purity.\u00a0So focused and intense; needs food. 90\/100 (\u00a39,50 Oddbins)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also written a longer article about Riesling and its prospects of hitting the\u00a0big time <a href=\"http:\/\/wineanorak.com\/riesling_has_its_time_come.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may be in a minority, but I reckon Chile&#8217;s whites are a bit more interesting than reds at the moment. And Riesling, although it&#8217;s still quite rare here, could&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,28],"tags":[385,363],"class_list":["post-6786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chile","category-riesling","tag-chile","tag-riesling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786","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=6786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6792,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions\/6792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}