{"id":8245,"date":"2013-09-30T21:14:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T21:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=8245"},"modified":"2015-11-19T18:36:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T18:36:19","slug":"a-brilliant-serbian-white-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/serbia\/a-brilliant-serbian-white-wine","title":{"rendered":"A brilliant Serbian white wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/P1011978-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8248\" title=\"poema francuska vinarija\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/P1011978-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I write, I&#8217;m sipping a white wine from Serbia. This would be a brilliant wine to put into a blind tasting: I reckon most people would suggest that it&#8217;s a serious dry Loire Chenin Blanc.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it has no Chenin in it at all. It&#8217;s made by a French couple, Cyrille\u00a0Bongiraud and Estelle Germain, and the winery name is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.francuskavinarija.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Francuska Vinarija<\/a>. They\u00a0moved from France to the Serbian village of Rogljevo, drawn by the\u00a0limestone soils, beginning here in 2003 and moving full time in 2007. Bongiraud should be able to spot a good terroir: he&#8217;s a specialist vineyard soil consultant. And, working naturally,\u00a0they are making some great wines, including this wonderful white blend.<\/p>\n<p>UK\u00a0agent is Indigo Wine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Francuska Vinarija Poema 2009 Serbia<\/strong><br \/>\nA blend of Riesling, Muscat, Tamjanika\u00a0and Grasevina, from limestone soils.\u00a0Very\u00a0stony, minerally wine with nutty, waxy, appley notes. Restrained nose of pear and apple pie leads to a palate that is lively, textured and mineral. Quite a profound wine with\u00a0pith and mineral notes, and lovely\u00a0complexity. It&#8217;s a tiny bit oxidative, but this works brilliantly in the context of this wine. 92\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write, I&#8217;m sipping a white wine from Serbia. This would be a brilliant wine to put into a blind tasting: I reckon most people would suggest that it&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[421],"class_list":["post-8245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serbia","tag-serbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8245","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=8245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13226,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8245\/revisions\/13226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}