{"id":6439,"date":"2010-12-02T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/your-10-wines-for-christmas\/"},"modified":"2010-12-02T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T01:05:00","slug":"your-10-wines-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2010\/12\/your-10-wines-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Your 10 wines for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegoldbook.com.au\/site\/assets\/media\/newsletters\/Robheadshot.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>Rob Geddes<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegoldbook.com.au\/index.php?r=emailer\/tracking\/click&#038;cid=8&#038;uid=4863&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegoldbook.com.au%2F\">Rob Geddes<\/a>&#8216; recommendations for Christmas wine this year have been some of the best  tasted in 2010. These may be wines for that special dinner or to give as gifts.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Celebration bubbles:  <\/p>\n<p>Ayala NV Brut Majeur Champagne <\/p>\n<p>Dry, fine and complex, a truly smart champagne.<\/p>\n<p>Wine for lighter flavours such as seafood, salads, canapes &#038; white meats with lighter sauces:<\/p>\n<p>Wilson Vineyard DJW Riesling  10<\/p>\n<p>In a year of obvious rich Riesling Daniel Wilson has made a truly delicious dry, subtle limes, elegant and appealing Riesling.<\/p>\n<p>Grossett Springvale Riesling 10<\/p>\n<p>The flavours are pineapple and spice of the Watervale sub region, ideal on Christmas day.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Mentelle Wallcliffe Sauvignon Blanc Semillon 08<\/p>\n<p>This wine is extraordinary fresh nettles and herbs dry and crisp, great texture and length I am sure its their best yet.<\/p>\n<p>De Bortoli Pinot Noir Rose, Yarra Valley 10<\/p>\n<p>You have to try this over summer &#8211; dry but rich in texture.<\/p>\n<p>Wine for medium flavours such as lighter red meat &#038; white meat with rich sauces:<\/p>\n<p>Freycinet Pinot Noir 08<\/p>\n<p>The sort of wine wife says\u201d remember that one!\u201d East coast Tasmania has great depth of flavour, velvety tannins richness in texture and fruit flavour.<\/p>\n<p>Spring Vale Pinot Noir 07<\/p>\n<p>This is the more affordable and widely available introduction from the neighbours to Freycinet. In the same style if a touch more rustic.<\/p>\n<p>Wine for medium to heavy flavours such as roasted red meat:<\/p>\n<p>Tim Adams Aberfeldy Shiraz 08<\/p>\n<p>Tasted in a line up of wines costing up to $550.00 this shone for its freshness and fine satiny silky tannins Tim Adams really knows Clare Shiraz and this could be his finest to date.<\/p>\n<p>Chateau Cantemerle Haut Medoc 05<\/p>\n<p>Tasted in a line up of wines costing up to $130.00 it reminds of the subtle elegance, length and power of Bordeuax and only slightly bigger than light medium body.<\/p>\n<p>Petaluma Coonawarra Merlot 06<\/p>\n<p>Tasted in a line up of wines costing up to $130.00 I was remdinded that despite sideways Merlot can rock and in the hands of Petaluma it has rolled along consistently for over a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Geddes Rob Geddes&#8216; recommendations for Christmas wine this year have been some of the best tasted in 2010. These may be wines for that special dinner or to give as gifts. Celebration bubbles: Ayala NV Brut Majeur Champagne Dry, fine and complex, a truly smart champagne. Wine for lighter flavours such as seafood, salads, [&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-6439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439","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=6439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}