{"id":40,"date":"2011-09-10T21:01:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T21:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2012-09-28T14:57:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T14:57:01","slug":"lorgeril-les-terrasses-merlot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/2011\/09\/lorgeril-les-terrasses-merlot\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorgeril Les Terrasses Merlot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so here we go, this is my first wine review and I&#8217;m going to keep it sweet and short.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41\" title=\"Lorgeril Les Terrasses Merlot\" src=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Lorgeril-Les-Terrasses-Merlot-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lorgeril Les Terrasses Merlot\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Lorgeril-Les-Terrasses-Merlot-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Lorgeril-Les-Terrasses-Merlot-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Lorgeril-Les-Terrasses-Merlot.jpg 1653w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>I bought this\u00a0Languedoc\u00a0red after a chat with the man at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angliawines.co.uk\/\">Anglia Wine Merchants<\/a> in Ely. \u00a0He tried at first to talk me out of buying a Langudeoc, saying that it wasn&#8217;t known as a great wine in France. \u00a0I told him that didn&#8217;t matter as I&#8217;m interested learning more about the wine of that region. \u00a0So he showed me two bottles I chose this one for no particular reason.<\/p>\n<p>Back home, I waited for Question Time on Radio 4 to start and then opened the bottle. \u00a0The first sip was a bit of a\u00a0surprise, so sharp! \u00a0I\u00a0immediately\u00a0felt a little\u00a0disappointed, was this to be the start of my new, more\u00a0appreciative, stance with wine? \u00a0Hmmmm?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I finished the glass and poured another, the sharpness had dissipated and I started to enjoy the wine more though I wasn&#8217;t sure if that was down to feeling slightly typsy or not. \u00a0Now the wine had a fuller, woody taste, a little rough but not in a bad way.<\/p>\n<p>The next night I finished off the bottle. \u00a0The first taste was lovely and I really began to enjoy the wine. \u00a0Maybe the initial sharpness was a result of drinking a glass immediately after opening the bottle? \u00a0Perhaps that old cliche of &#8216;giving the wine time to breathe&#8217; is actually true?<\/p>\n<p>Okay, next time I&#8217;ll open the bottle half an hour before Question Time and give it some time.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers mon!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Marks out of ten<\/strong>: 6.5<\/li>\n<li><strong>Buy again?<\/strong>: Maybe<\/li>\n<li><strong>Price<\/strong>: \u00a37.50<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lorgeril.com\/2-32659-Home.php?connect=ok\">Website of vineyard<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so here we go, this is my first wine review and I&#8217;m going to keep it sweet and short&#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\/40"}],"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=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}