{"id":805,"date":"2010-06-18T17:14:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T17:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=805"},"modified":"2010-06-18T17:15:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T17:15:17","slug":"visiting-laithwaites-one-of-the-uks-most-important-wine-merchants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/visiting-laithwaites-one-of-the-uks-most-important-wine-merchants","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Laithwaites, one of the UK&#8217;s most important wine merchants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020645.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-806\" title=\"P1020645\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020645.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I visited Laithwaites&#8217; large wine shop in Vinopolis, near London Bridge station. I tasted a selection of the range and then had lunch with buying director Justin Howard-Sneyd (<em>above<\/em>) and buyer Becca Reeves. I&#8217;ve been a Laithwaites sceptic in the past, but I from the conversations we had and the wines we tried, I think that Laithwaites is on its way to becoming a proper wine merchant, and not just a direct mail specialist. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com\/laithwaites.htm\" target=\"_blank\">read the full interview here<\/a>, as well as see my notes on the stand-out wines. One that really impressed was this Douro red, from Jorge Borges at Quinta do Passadouro.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020648.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-807\" title=\"P1020648\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020648.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020648.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020648-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020648-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020648-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Passa Pequena 2008 Douro, Portugal<br \/>\n<\/strong>Made by Jorge Borges at Quinta do Passadouro. Fresh, supple and bright with cherry fruit backed up by a savoury, mineral edge and some subtle herbiness. Simple and fruity but with Douro typicity and a hint of seriousness: I really like this wine, and it\u2019s great value for money. 89\/100 (\u00a38.49 Laithwaites)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I visited Laithwaites&#8217; large wine shop in Vinopolis, near London Bridge station. I tasted a selection of the range and then had lunch with buying director Justin Howard-Sneyd (above)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","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=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}