{"id":8498,"date":"2013-11-19T22:17:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T22:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=8498"},"modified":"2013-11-20T17:14:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T17:14:14","slug":"a-lovely-south-african-chardonnay-and-a-top-champagne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/champagne\/a-lovely-south-african-chardonnay-and-a-top-champagne","title":{"rendered":"A lovely South African Chardonnay, and a top Champagne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1935.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8505\" alt=\"IMG_1935\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1935.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1935.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1935-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1935-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1935-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been judging wines at Tranche 1 of the International Wine Challenge this week. The idea is, for the first time, to split judging into two sessions: the customary April two weeks, plus an additional week in November. This helps with southern and northern hemisphere wineries releasing wines at different times.<\/p>\n<p>But I wanted to highlight two trophy winners from last year, tasted on Sunday night. A superb South African Chardonnay and a lovely Champagne.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sumaridge Chardonnay 2010 Hemel en Aarde Valley, South Africa<\/strong><br \/>\nWonderfully complex, bright and fresh with pear and white peach fruit as well as precise citrus notes, as well as subtle toast. Real finesse here: it&#8217;s just such a lovely, complete wine. 93\/100<\/p>\n<p><strong>Champagne Mumm de Cramant Blanc de Blancs NV France<\/strong><br \/>\nVery crisp, precise and lively with subtle toast and bright citrus fruit. There&#8217;s grapefruit and lemon as well as suberb concentration and purity. Stylish effort. 93\/100<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been judging wines at Tranche 1 of the International Wine Challenge this week. The idea is, for the first time, to split judging into two sessions: the customary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,65,55,49],"tags":[360,380,229,374],"class_list":["post-8498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-champagne","category-chardonnay","category-france","category-south-africa","tag-champagne","tag-chardonnay","tag-hemel-en-aarde","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498","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=8498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8507,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498\/revisions\/8507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}