{"id":6708,"date":"2007-06-26T01:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/keeping-the-legend-alive-2\/"},"modified":"2007-06-26T01:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T01:40:00","slug":"keeping-the-legend-alive-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2007\/06\/keeping-the-legend-alive-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the Legend Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psnews.com.au\/grfx\/psn77OOHwinepic1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.psnews.com.au\/grfx\/psn77OOHwinepic1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>It made its debut only in 1994, yet in it\u2019s short lifetime it\u2019s become as legendary as the winemaker it\u2019s named after, garnering 22 two Show Trophies, 67 Gold Medals and countless Silvers and Bronze from only seven vintages, and has already become a benchmark of Australian wine investment.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re talking about Houghton\u2019s Jack Mann Cabernet Sauvignon, a stellar wine from low-yielding, single-vineyard fruit off Houghton\u2019s Justin Vineyard in the Frankland River area of Western Australia\u2019s Great Southern Region. <\/p>\n<p>The latest release, the 2001, once again epitomises Houghton\u2019s philosophy with this label: to lend it only to their very best Cabernet Sauvignon.<\/p>\n<p>The dry 2001 Spring, and even drier Summer, produced luscious-textured fruit of intense flavour that enabled Senior Winemaker, Rob Bowen to craft a wine with an enormous bouquet of blackberry, plum and mulberry, and a few hints of liquorice, truffle and bramble, plus a palate that\u2019s opulent and concentrated.<\/p>\n<p>At $100 from fine wine outlets, this is one to share with special-occasion guests over roast beef, baked Winter vegies and garlic gravy.  (And while at it, raise a glass to Jack Mann, one of Australia\u2019s most-visionary winemakers who steered Houghton\u2019s through 51 consecutive vintages from 1922 to 1973<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It made its debut only in 1994, yet in it\u2019s short lifetime it\u2019s become as legendary as the winemaker it\u2019s named after, garnering 22 two Show Trophies, 67 Gold Medals and countless Silvers and Bronze from only seven vintages, and has already become a benchmark of Australian wine investment. We\u2019re talking about Houghton\u2019s Jack Mann [&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":[406,151],"class_list":["post-6708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cabernet","tag-houghton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708","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=6708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}