{"id":767,"date":"2010-06-11T19:29:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T19:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=767"},"modified":"2010-06-12T09:58:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T09:58:06","slug":"real-time-tasting-of-a-natural-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wine-reviews\/real-time-tasting-of-a-natural-wine","title":{"rendered":"Real time tasting of a natural wine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s Friday evening. After a cloudy, cool day we are being treated to a bright, warm-ish summer’s evening, and so I am sitting outside, glass in hand, blogging before I cook dinner.<\/p>\n

One of the joys of the blog is that content can be of the moment. Unplanned; spontaneous. You get a pure communication, unfiltered and unfined.<\/p>\n

Tonight Fiona is out, so it is just me and younger son. Steak is on the menu, which I’ll shortly cook on the barbie, following the advice I was given at a Gaucho Grill masterclass<\/a> a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n

Time, first, for some wine. It’s a natural wine from the Cotes du Rousillon; a blend of half Carignan, half Grenache, farmed organically and given a standard natural wine vinification – a variation on maceration carbonique in the absence of sulfur dioxide, and at low temperature.<\/p>\n

Edouard Laffitte L’Echappee Belle ‘Le Bout du Monde’ NV Vin de Table de France
\n<\/strong>Lot 1\/07 indicates the vintage of this naturally made Roussillon wine. It has a wonderfully fresh, bright nose of cherries, herbs, spice and a hint of undergrowth. The palate is fresh and fruity, but with lovely grainy, subtly sappy savouriness. It’s a wine with different levels: on one, it is fresh, fruity and easy to drink; on another, it has a more serious, savoury side that repays some contemplation. It tastes a bit like a natural wine – there’s a sort of freshness and elegance here, along with the sappy, spicy, undergrowth notes, but there’s also an indication of the terroir, too. I really like it – it’s the sort of wine where I’ll find it close to impossible to leave any in the bottle. 91\/100 (Les Caves de Pyrene)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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