{"id":15835,"date":"2012-03-04T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/verdelho-ideal-with-brunch-seafood-platter-2\/"},"modified":"2012-03-04T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T21:59:00","slug":"verdelho-ideal-with-brunch-seafood-platter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/03\/verdelho-ideal-with-brunch-seafood-platter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"VERDELHO \u2013 IDEAL WITH BRUNCH SEAFOOD PLATTER"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wc05Mar12<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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FROM the Hunter Valley, but made in the style
they enjoy it in its home-country Portugal.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

David Ellis<\/p>\n

WHILE Verdelho is still somewhat of a niche wine in this country, it’s a variety that deserves more attention for its ability to go so well with food \u2013 in its home country of Portugal it’s a natural with seafoods, but you’ll find it equally rewarding with dishes based on light meats such as pork, veal and chicken.<\/p>\n

Mount Eyre in the NSW Hunter Valley produces a very-moreish Verdelho under its premium Three Ponds label, sourcing fruit from a vineyard on the sandy loam river flats along Monkey Place Creek at Broke, and first planted in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

Its 2011 Three Ponds Verdelho came from an ideal vintage and is very much in the style of Portuguese Verdelho, with plenty of nice tropical and citrus aromas and flavours.<\/p>\n

Enjoy it nicely cold but not too much so, pairing with a Sunday brunch seafood platter or barbecued pork, veal and chicken as its fans do back in homeland Portugal. The Three Ponds 2011 is well-priced at $19.95.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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HERE’S just the drop to enjoy
with a good Bouillabaisse.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

ONE FOR LUNCH: WEATHER patterns in the Awatere Valley of the Marlborough region of New Zealand’s South Island can most probably be best described as “harsh:” rainfall is low, sunshine rates are high, the nights are cool and the area can be almost constantly hammered by high winds.<\/p>\n

But 2011 delivered a surprise, with the vintage enjoying warmer than usual days and still-cool nights that played right into the hands of local winemakers, delivering them fruit that brimmed with varietal flavours, structure and intensity.<\/p>\n

At Yealands Estate their 2011 Pinot Noir proved particularly exciting and a 2011 Pinot Noir Ros\u00e9 that’s just been released is a lovely drop with luscious ripe strawberry and raspberry flavours and mouth watering acidity. Pay $24.95 and enjoy on its own \u2013 or team it up, as we did, with a good Bouillabaisse.<\/p>\n

(NEED A FOOD\/DRINK IDEA? Check out\u00a0 http:\/\/www.vintnews.com<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wc05Mar12 FROM the Hunter Valley, but made in the stylethey enjoy it in its home-country Portugal. David Ellis WHILE Verdelho is still somewhat of a niche wine in this country, it’s a variety that deserves more attention for its ability to go so well with food \u2013 in its home country of Portugal it’s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[398,413,408],"class_list":["post-15835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hunter-valley","tag-pinot-noir","tag-verdelho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}