{"id":125,"date":"2010-03-03T15:15:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T02:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.limestonehills.co.nz\/?p=125"},"modified":"2010-03-03T15:15:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T02:15:41","slug":"second-wine-2009-syrah-pinot-to-be-bottled-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/second-wine-2009-syrah-pinot-to-be-bottled-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Second wine: 2009 syrah &#038; pinot to be bottled soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">S<\/span>tunning, that&#8217;s what Nicholas said. The winemaker, that is, about our first syrah. Quite made my day, I can tell you. I tasted a barrel sample today, and I have to say I thought it was pretty good &#8212; though naturally I&#8217;m biased. The pinot&#8217;s not bad either: a lot more colour and complexity than last year&#8217;s first effort. We&#8217;ll be bottling both wines in about a month &#8212; we should have about 25 cases of pinot and 12 of syrah. Some may be available for sale, but I&#8217;ve no idea of prices yet.<\/p>\n<p>The 2010 grapes are looking good under their nets. It&#8217;s a been a warm, dry summer so far, and I&#8217;m expecting a slightly bigger crop than last year, but with good concentration. Now that we&#8217;re moving into late summer and early autumn, all we need is some of those long dry weeks Waipara&#8217;s famous for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stunning, that&#8217;s what Nicholas said. The winemaker, that is, about our first syrah. Quite made my day, I can tell you. I tasted a barrel sample today, and I have to say I thought it was pretty good &#8212; though naturally I&#8217;m biased. The pinot&#8217;s not bad either: a lot more colour and complexity than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/second-wine-2009-syrah-pinot-to-be-bottled-soon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Second wine: 2009 syrah &#038; pinot to be bottled soon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-wine","category-truffles-farm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}