{"id":16216,"date":"2009-11-29T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/special-occasion-wines-sea-born-heritage-2\/"},"modified":"2009-11-29T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T23:16:00","slug":"special-occasion-wines-sea-born-heritage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/11\/special-occasion-wines-sea-born-heritage-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SPECIAL OCCASION WINE\u2019S SEA-BORN HERITAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SxMA2CvSpCI\/AAAAAAAAHlc\/r01ejSyzyfw\/s1600\/penna_riesling-700499.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SxMA2CvSpCI\/AAAAAAAAHlc\/r01ejSyzyfw\/s320\/penna_riesling-700499.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SxMA2j1fyFI\/AAAAAAAAHlk\/Jx6MurBxyuo\/s1600\/Brand%27s+Stentiford%27s+Shiraz-701936.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SxMA2j1fyFI\/AAAAAAAAHlk\/Jx6MurBxyuo\/s320\/Brand%27s+Stentiford%27s+Shiraz-701936.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wc30Nov09<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>david ellis<\/p>\n<p>WHEN British sea captain Henry Stentiford swallowed the anchor and opted for a life ashore back in the 1890s, he chose Coonawarra in far-off Australia with the idea of growing grapes for winemaking.<\/p>\n<p>But he couldn&#8217;t tear himself totally apart from his days on the sea, and named the 4ha parcel of prime &#8216;terra rosa&#8217; land he bought in Coonawarra after his beloved square-rigger sailing ship, Laira.<\/p>\n<p>Today, 116 years later Brand&#8217;s Laira* is a deservedly-respected household name when it comes to wine-talk, with its super-premium reds still coming off vines planted by Captain Stentiford all those years ago in 1893. (*The property was bought by legendary Eric Brand and his wife Nancy in 1950 who re-named it, and is now owned by McWilliams.)<\/p>\n<p>The just-released 2005 Brand&#8217;s Laira Stentiford Old Vine Shiraz is a stunner of a wine, one for special occasion celebrations when you&#8217;re prepared to pay for only the best: a flag-bearer for the label, it has great plum and blackberry fruit intensity, spicy cinnamon, nice oak, and a powerful tannin structure.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t baulk at the $74.99 \u00a0price tag on that special occasion treat with family or friends; serve it with pan-seared filet mignon and a Bordeaux sauce.<\/p>\n<p>ONE FOR LUNCH: Summertime is seafood time, and seafood time is Riesling time: Penna Lane&#8217;s 2009 Hand-Picked Riesling from the Clare Valley is one such that &#8216;s sure to please the most fastidious Riesling buff, offering up an intense concentration of citrus fruit flavours and a refreshing, zesty acidity.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy with an alfresco summertime seafood salad, or pan-fried fish fillets with either home-cut chunky chips or a tossed salad. Certainly rewarding buying at $21.<\/p>\n<p>(NEED A FOOD\/DRINK IDEA? Check out\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintnews.com\/\">http:\/\/www.vintnews.com<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p>PHOTO CAPTIONS:<\/p>\n<p>[] FOR that very special occasion, from 116-year old vines<\/p>\n<p>[] REFRESHING summertime seafood Riesling<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wc30Nov09\u00a0 david ellis WHEN British sea captain Henry Stentiford swallowed the anchor and opted for a life ashore back in the 1890s, he chose Coonawarra in far-off Australia with the idea of growing grapes for winemaking. But he couldn&#8217;t tear himself totally apart from his days on the sea, and named the 4ha parcel of [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-16216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16216","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=16216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}