{"id":854,"date":"2010-06-28T18:47:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T18:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=854"},"modified":"2010-07-04T20:32:42","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T20:32:42","slug":"greetings-from-chilly-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/from-the-road\/greetings-from-chilly-auckland","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from chilly Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMGP0644_2_3_tonemapped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-886\" title=\"IMGP0644_2_3_tonemapped\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMGP0644_2_3_tonemapped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMGP0644_2_3_tonemapped.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMGP0644_2_3_tonemapped-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMGP0644_2_3_tonemapped-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMGP0644_2_3_tonemapped-400x264.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a bad idea to plan travel to the southern hemisphere during the heights of a lovely English summer. I&#8217;ve traded sun and 28 degrees for wind, rain and grey skies here in Auckland. Still, I&#8217;m glad to be here. I&#8217;ve just skyped home, and getting ready for a busy day interviewing scientists about the science of Sauvignon Blanc.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Hooker, of the NZ Growers, who is coordinating my visit, took me up to Mount Eden before my visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plantandfood.co.nz\/\">Plant and Food Research<\/a> yesterday. Pictured above is the view of the city from the peak, with the side of the crater (this was a volcano) visible in the foreground.<\/p>\n<p>Despite my severely jet-lagged state, I had a lovely dinner with Simon and Philip Manson from the growers last night. We shared a bottle of the Craggy Range Syrah Gimblett Gravels Vineyard 2008, which was brilliantly vibrant, fresh and peppery. So deliciously drinkable is this wine, I could have drunk the whole bottle myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a bad idea to plan travel to the southern hemisphere during the heights of a lovely English summer. I&#8217;ve traded sun and 28 degrees for wind, rain and grey&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[352,349],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-road","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-wine-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","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=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}