{"id":32,"date":"2011-09-05T21:18:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T21:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2012-09-28T14:56:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T14:56:50","slug":"wine-and-me-a-new-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/2011\/09\/wine-and-me-a-new-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine and me, a new start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33\" title=\"wine drinkers\" src=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/wine-drinkers-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"wine drinkers\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/wine-drinkers-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/wine-drinkers.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The last couple of times in France have changed the way I look at wine. \u00a0Before I was (more or less) happy to drink any more or less half decent bottle of red.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s gone now. \u00a0France has totally ruined my taste buds&#8230;I really can&#8217;t tolerate mediocre wine any more.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve returned from France determined to enjoy wine more than ever and that means:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>being choosy about what I drink<\/li>\n<li>being willing to spend more on a bottle<\/li>\n<li>focusing on wine from the region that we go to every year, the Languedoc \u00a0in the south west of France<\/li>\n<li>learning how and why to appreciate good wine<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Luckily we have an independent wine seller in Ely, <a title=\"Anglia Wine Merchants\" href=\"http:\/\/www.angliawines.co.uk\/\">Anglia Wine Merchants<\/a>, and I&#8217;ve started buying my wine from them so I can actually talk to people who know something about wine instead of wandering aimlessly down the booze aisles in the supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to write up my\u00a0thoughts\u00a0on each bottle I drink and post them here. \u00a0Betcha can&#8217;t wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of times in France have changed the way I look at wine. \u00a0Before I was (more or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}