{"id":7020,"date":"2013-04-01T22:16:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T22:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=7020"},"modified":"2013-04-01T22:16:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T22:16:15","slug":"a-profound-valpolicella-ripasso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/italy\/a-profound-valpolicella-ripasso","title":{"rendered":"A profound Valpolicella Ripasso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMGP7316.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7034\" title=\"IMGP7316\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMGP7316.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMGP7316.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMGP7316-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMGP7316-150x91.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMGP7316-400x244.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been sampling this wine over the last three nights, and it has got better each time. It&#8217;s made by Nicola Ferrari (a bloke &#8211; in Italy, Nicola isn&#8217;t a girl&#8217;s name), who has been for 12 years the winemaker at Quintarelli, a job he took at the tender age of 26. He&#8217;s now making wine from 3 hectares of his own vineyards, and this Ripasso is just supern. UK agent is Swig (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swig.co.uk)\">www.swig.co.uk)<\/a>\u00a0and the retail price for this wine\u00a0is \u00a319.50.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monte Santoccio Valpolicella Ripasso 2009 Veneto, Italy \u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nWonderfully aromatic, with note of cherries, herbs and spices, as well as some sweet liquer-like notes. The palate is fresh, elegant and a bit grippy with a savoury, spicy quality and some damson\/bitter plum notes under the sweet cherry fruit. I love the complex sweet tea leaf and herb characters. Lovely precision her. 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>I have been sampling this wine over the last three nights, and it has got better each time. It&#8217;s made by Nicola Ferrari (a bloke &#8211; in Italy, Nicola isn&#8217;t&#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":[370,231],"class_list":["post-7020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy","tag-italy","tag-valpolicella"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020","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=7020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7035,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020\/revisions\/7035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}