{"id":7463,"date":"2013-06-11T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=7463"},"modified":"2013-06-11T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T16:56:10","slug":"four-impressive-loire-sauvignons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/sauvignon-blanc\/four-impressive-loire-sauvignons","title":{"rendered":"Four impressive Loire Sauvignons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/henribourgeoisaugustins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7468\" title=\"henribourgeois\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/henribourgeoisaugustins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/henribourgeoisaugustins.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/henribourgeoisaugustins-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/henribourgeoisaugustins-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/henribourgeoisaugustins-400x276.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I tasted through 33 different Loire Sauvignons with a view to selecting 14 to present at Vinexpo next week. These had all won gold or above in competitions, so they were a good bunch. Here are four that stood out to me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Henri Bourgeois Sancerre &#8216;La Chapelle des Augustins&#8217; 2011 Loire, France<\/strong><br \/>\nComplex, intense and powerful with great depth of flavour. There&#8217;s melon, pear and citrus fruit, with a rich texture and great power. Seamless and mineral. 93\/100<\/p>\n<p><strong>Henri Bourgeois Sancerre &#8216;La Baronnes&#8217; 2012 Loire, France<\/strong><br \/>\nFinely aromatic, fresh and expressive. Where Augustins is big, concentrated and rich, this is lighter and more mineral, with grapefruit freshness. Lovely focus with great balance. Lovely. 92\/100<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1010211.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7471\" title=\"misterL\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1010211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1010211.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1010211-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1010211-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1010211-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mister L 2011 Vin de Pays du Val du Loire, France<\/strong><br \/>\nA Sauvignon Blanc, made from a single vineyard owned by David Levin. This is a dramatic wine: intense aromas of pear and quince lead to a rich palate showing pear and citrus fruit with some pithy, herbal notes. Rich, bold and concentrated. 91\/100<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rethore Davy Sauvignon Blanc 2012 Val de Loire IGP, France<\/strong><br \/>\nRipe passionfruit and pear aromatics. Lovely depth on the palate: intense with great balance, ripe fruit and fresh grapefruit notes. Lively and delicious. 91\/100<\/p>\n<p>Find these wines 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>Yesterday I tasted through 33 different Loire Sauvignons with a view to selecting 14 to present at Vinexpo next week. These had all won gold or above in competitions, so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,16],"tags":[386,355],"class_list":["post-7463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loire","category-sauvignon-blanc","tag-loire","tag-sauvignon-blanc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463","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=7463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7473,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions\/7473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}