{"id":6222,"date":"2012-05-07T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/apple-tree-flat-is-value-for-money\/"},"modified":"2012-05-07T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T06:20:00","slug":"apple-tree-flat-is-value-for-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/05\/apple-tree-flat-is-value-for-money\/","title":{"rendered":"APPLE TREE FLAT IS VALUE FOR MONEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-4mCO4TZnTmI\/T8B2P9pHyTI\/AAAAAAAAVBw\/I50XRIUjYmI\/s1600\/ATF_Merlot10_LoRes-747222.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5746723141141907762\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-4mCO4TZnTmI\/T8B2P9pHyTI\/AAAAAAAAVBw\/I50XRIUjYmI\/s320\/ATF_Merlot10_LoRes-747222.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">ONE reason why customers come back time<br \/>and again for the wines of Apple Tree Flat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Wc07May12<\/span><\/p>\n<p>David Ellis<\/p>\n<p>IN the decade-plus since he released his first Apple Tree Flat wines from the 2001 vintage, Peter Logan has striven to improve upon each vintage while at the same time also maintaining a philosophy of value for money.<\/p>\n<p>And he says it&#8217;s because he&#8217;s conscious that customers choose to buy his wines a second and a third time as a result of enjoying their first experiences of the label. &#8220;So it&#8217;s therefore important to honour this initial experience and not change the profile of the wine too dramatically,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>Named after the little hamlet just outside Mudgee in the NSW Central Ranges wine region that Peter and his wife Hannah call home, Peter&#8217;s wines are well-priced for their quality, a just-released 2010 Apple Tree Flat Merlot just $12.<\/p>\n<p>With berry, dark chocolate and dried herb and earthy flavours, this is a good drop at the price to enjoy with a roast leg of lamb, mint sauce and baked vegies, or a lamb-based Shepherd&#8217;s Pie.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-2hd22wkLfUo\/T8B2QR8LtHI\/AAAAAAAAVB8\/G5ThLIu8QVg\/s1600\/Lerida%2BEstate%2BPinot%2BGrigio%2B2011_PPR-748611.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5746723146590565490\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-2hd22wkLfUo\/T8B2QR8LtHI\/AAAAAAAAVB8\/G5ThLIu8QVg\/s320\/Lerida%2BEstate%2BPinot%2BGrigio%2B2011_PPR-748611.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">JUST the drop for celebrating Italy&#8217;s<br \/>National Republic Day on June 2.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>ONE FOR LUNCH:<\/b> With Italy&#8217;s National Republic Day coming up on June 2, what better way to celebrate than with pasta with seafood sauce or a pasta alfredo, together with a bottle or two of Pinot Grigio \u2013 the product of Italy&#8217;s national white grape and its most popular white wine.<\/p>\n<p>With Italian ancestry, Lerida Estate&#8217;s Jim Lumbers planted his first Pinot Grigio on his vineyard in the Canberra District in 1997. &#8220;I believe our 2011 is now our first really authentic-styled Pinot Grigio,&#8221; Jim says, &#8220;as opposed to the more Alsatian-style we have produced in the past.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Winemaker Malcolm Burdett coaxed the best of the style&#8217;s mineral and herb\u00a0 characters from Lerida&#8217;s excellent fruit, and finished it with nice savoury characters from 5% barrel fermentation. Pay $25 and enjoy with either of those pastas dishes, or your own favourite Italian choices.<\/p>\n<p>(NEED A FOOD\/DRINK IDEA? Check out\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintnews.com\/\">http:\/\/www.vintnews.com<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ONE reason why customers come back timeand again for the wines of Apple Tree Flat Wc07May12 David Ellis IN the decade-plus since he released his first Apple Tree Flat wines from the 2001 vintage, Peter Logan has striven to improve upon each vintage while at the same time also maintaining a philosophy of value for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[403,402,396,404],"class_list":["post-6222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-canberra-district-wine","tag-merlot","tag-nsw-central-west","tag-pinot-gris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222","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=6222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}