{"id":7492,"date":"2013-06-16T22:05:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T22:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=7492"},"modified":"2013-06-16T22:05:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T22:05:48","slug":"a-rarity-a-portuguese-chenin-blanc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/portugal\/a-rarity-a-portuguese-chenin-blanc","title":{"rendered":"A rarity, a Portuguese Chenin Blanc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1010056.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7497\" title=\"ribafreixocheninblanc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1010056.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1010056.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1010056-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1010056-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1010056-400x268.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed this: it&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve had a Portuguese Chenin Blanc.<\/p>\n<p>Now Portugal is blessed with a wide array of its own varieties, so you might ask why any serious Portuguese wine grower would look elsewhere for foreign varieties to play with. But Chenin could be a worthy exception to this rule, because it is such a wonderful variety.<\/p>\n<p>This wine hasn&#8217;t been universally well received (just commended at both Decanter World Wine Awards and International Wine Challenge), but I think it&#8217;s pretty good, in an understated sort of way. It actually tastes of Chenin, which is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ribafreixo Connections Chenin Blanc 2012 Portugal<\/strong><br \/>\nFrom the Alentejo, Paulo Laureano is the consultant winemaker here. Citrussy, fresh and subtly herbal with a hint of honey, as well as\u00a0some apple and pear. Very good acidity and lovely presence, this is an attractive crisp dry white with some marked varietal character. 89\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed this: it&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve had a Portuguese Chenin Blanc. Now Portugal is blessed with a wide array of its own varieties, so you might ask why&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,7],"tags":[150,404,350],"class_list":["post-7492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chenin-blanc","category-portugal","tag-alentejo","tag-chenin-blanc","tag-portugal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492","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=7492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7498,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492\/revisions\/7498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}