{"id":91,"date":"2007-11-01T15:24:53","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T23:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/sauvignon-from-the-loire\/"},"modified":"2008-10-29T10:10:05","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T18:10:05","slug":"sauvignon-from-the-loire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/sauvignon-from-the-loire\/","title":{"rendered":"Loire Valley Sauvignon Blanc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Domaine Andr\u00c3\u00a9 Vatan, Sancerre, Les Charmes 2006<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The style point has always been lean and green, offering a sense of the appellation without the over $20 price of the more concentrated offerings. Today&#8217;s wine offered riper fruit flavors that are just delicious.  There&#8217;s a sense of lemons and grapefruit with lots of refreshing acidity. Andr\u00c3\u00a9 Vatan is a generous and gregarious man who also makes wood aged Sancerre at a higher price point. Mis in Chaudoux, Verdigny-en-Sancerre in Cher 12.9% $15.99 at Bottle Barn<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Pascal Jolivet Pouilly-Fume 2005<\/strong><br \/>\nA solid performer in previous vintages. Today&#8217;s wine showed the flintiness and minerality you might expect, with a hint of the alcohol as the fruit is dropping away. This wine is sourced from the estate&#8217;s almost 20 acres near the villages of Tracy and Les Loges. 12.5% $19.69 at Bottle Barn <a title=\"Pascal Jolivet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pascal-jolivet.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pascal Jolivet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domaine Andr\u00c3\u00a9 Vatan, Sancerre, Les Charmes 2006 The style point has always been lean and green, offering a sense of the appellation without the over $20 price of the more concentrated offerings. Today&#8217;s wine offered riper fruit flavors that are just delicious. There&#8217;s a sense of lemons and grapefruit with lots of refreshing acidity. Andr\u00c3\u00a9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,122,120,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-loire-valley","category-pouilly-fume","category-sancerre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}