{"id":394,"date":"2012-04-23T15:06:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T02:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.limestonehills.co.nz\/?p=394"},"modified":"2012-12-26T11:35:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T22:35:06","slug":"tonights-dinner-and-vineyard-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/tonights-dinner-and-vineyard-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight’s dinner, and vineyard notes…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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O<\/span>ne ripe bianchetto truffle, found for me by a rabbit, destined for tonight’s dinner. Nine grams, good strong aroma, just rolling around on the soil surface waiting for me to pick it up. Easiest truffle harvest ever. And there were a few more bianchetto in the ground waiting to ripen. This truffle growing business is a doddle ((No, it isn’t.)).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, followers of my tweets<\/a> and\/or the Limestone Hills Facebook page<\/a> will know that on Saturday we picked our pinot noir. Six of us ((Thanks Neil<\/a>, Graham and Denise, Alex and She Who Must Be Obeyed.)) picked the lot in four hours, and just under 450 kg of fine fruit is now sitting in a fermenter at Crater Rim turning itself into wine. Plus we have a few cases of our 2011 C\u00f4tes du Waipara recovering from bottle shock in the shed. I think I’ll open some of the ’09 with the truffle…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One ripe bianchetto truffle, found for me by a rabbit, destined for tonight’s dinner. Nine grams, good strong aroma, just rolling around on the soil surface waiting for me to pick it up. Easiest truffle harvest ever. And there were a few more bianchetto in the ground waiting to ripen. This truffle growing business is … Continue reading Tonight’s dinner, and vineyard notes…<\/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":[15,19,62,90,91],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-wine","category-truffles-farm","tag-bianchetto","tag-borchii","tag-pinot","tag-white-truffle","tag-wine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","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=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}