{"id":6688,"date":"2007-05-22T06:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T06:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wine-of-the-week-de-bortoli-2005-vat-4-petit-verdot\/"},"modified":"2007-05-22T06:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T06:19:00","slug":"wine-of-the-week-de-bortoli-2005-vat-4-petit-verdot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2007\/05\/wine-of-the-week-de-bortoli-2005-vat-4-petit-verdot\/","title":{"rendered":"WINE OF THE WEEK: De Bortoli 2005 Vat 4 Petit Verdot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.co.uk\/rodeime\/VINTNEWS\/photo?authkey=z2TXO9lQWUA#5069864717298495058\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.google.co.uk\/image\/rodeime\/RlvHGV3c7lI\/AAAAAAAAAK4\/nojuMNc5R0k\/s288\/FG-CR08419.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>ONE FOR LUNCH: Innovative Riverina makers, De Bortoli never cease to surprise with some of their more unusual bottlings, the latest being a gutsy 2005 Vat 4 Petit Verdot for when you\u2019re planning on feeding the man meat \u2013 it\u2019s value you\u2019ll find hard to beat at just $9.99 with a rare steak off the barbie.<\/p>\n<p>With Petit Verdot\u2019s history rooted in the Bordeaux region of France, this De Bortoli version\u2019s full-bodied with driving plum and spice flavours and toasty oak characters; we\u2019d suggest decantering to let the wine breath a bit before drinking \u2013 and at the price, don\u2019t look past putting a few away in the cellar as its showing a good two or three more years development potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ONE FOR LUNCH: Innovative Riverina makers, De Bortoli never cease to surprise with some of their more unusual bottlings, the latest being a gutsy 2005 Vat 4 Petit Verdot for when you\u2019re planning on feeding the man meat \u2013 it\u2019s value you\u2019ll find hard to beat at just $9.99 with a rare steak off the [&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":[417],"class_list":["post-6688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-de-bortoli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688","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=6688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}