{"id":7690,"date":"2013-07-14T08:50:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T08:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=7690"},"modified":"2013-07-14T08:51:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T08:51:01","slug":"chateau-rahoul-an-excellent-white-bordeaux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/sauvignon-blanc\/chateau-rahoul-an-excellent-white-bordeaux","title":{"rendered":"Chateau Rahoul, an excellent white Bordeaux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/P10104531.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7698\" title=\"Rahoul Graves\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/P10104531.jpg\" alt=\"Rahoul\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/P10104531.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/P10104531-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/P10104531-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/P10104531-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The older I get, the more I like white Bordeaux. It&#8217;s such an interesting expression of Sauvignon Blanc (often bolstered with a bit of Semillon, of course), usually barrel fermented. My experience is that barrel-fermented Sauvignon ages really well, and &#8211; as long as the oak isn&#8217;t overpowering\u00a0&#8211; it drinks well young, too. So it&#8217;s a useful sort of wine. And with the exception of a few celebrity white Bordeaux (Haut Brion Blanc, Smith Haut Lafitte and Chevalier, for example). This is a really good one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chateau Rahoul 2010 Graves, Bordeaux, France<\/strong><br \/>\n13.5% alcohol. Wonderful nose of grapefruit, subtle vanilla, toast, quince, pear and fennel. The palate is fresh and zippy with nice depth of pear\/citrus fruit and well integrated oak. Quite serious and ageworthy. 92\/100 (\u00a316 The Wine Society)<\/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>The older I get, the more I like white Bordeaux. It&#8217;s such an interesting expression of Sauvignon Blanc (often bolstered with a bit of Semillon, of course), usually barrel fermented&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,55,16],"tags":[359,376,355],"class_list":["post-7690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bordeaux","category-france","category-sauvignon-blanc","tag-bordeaux","tag-france","tag-sauvignon-blanc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690","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=7690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7700,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690\/revisions\/7700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}