{"id":6724,"date":"2007-04-30T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/a-label-climbing-to-success-2\/"},"modified":"2007-04-30T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T10:29:00","slug":"a-label-climbing-to-success-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2007\/04\/a-label-climbing-to-success-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A LABEL CLIMBING TO SUCCESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/rodeime\/VINTNEWS\/photo?authkey=z2TXO9lQWUA#5059221005780258050\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.google.com\/image\/rodeime\/RjX2sym6DQI\/AAAAAAAAAGU\/bwKQZdtzUDU\/s288\/ClimbingShiraz.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\"><\/a>INNOVATIVE Philip Shaw needs no introduction to those with a leaning towards premium-end wines, but he\u2019s really gone outside the square with a 2005 Shiraz created for Climbing Wines at Orange \u2013 one of Australia\u2019s highest and coolest wine regions located in the Central West of NSW.<\/p>\n<p>In this wine he\u2019s crafted a drop that\u2019s classically European in style in its elegance and defined bright varietal fruit flavours, yet at the same time true-blue Aussie in its intensity and fullness.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Shaw has had long connections with the unique Orange climate and topography, and as Climbing Wines\u2019 Director of Winemaking made his first wines for the label in 2004; his 2005 Shiraz that\u2019s just been released came from a growing season characterised by warm, dry conditions that gave low yields (just 6 tonnes per hectare) and a resultant intensity of flavour.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sourced our fruit from two prime blocks of the vineyard above 600m, one with limestone soil and the other with stony, red soil,\u201d Philip says. \u201cThis combination allowed us to create a wine that\u2019s characteristically Shiraz, although more raspberry than blackberry and more plum than mulberry, and at the one time both powerful yet elegant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s well priced at $19.99 for such a stand-out drop: ask your butcher to make up some pork, leek and bacon sausages, add a good dollop of mash and enjoy with this wine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INNOVATIVE Philip Shaw needs no introduction to those with a leaning towards premium-end wines, but he\u2019s really gone outside the square with a 2005 Shiraz created for Climbing Wines at Orange \u2013 one of Australia\u2019s highest and coolest wine regions located in the Central West of NSW. In this wine he\u2019s crafted a drop that\u2019s [&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":[391],"class_list":["post-6724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-shiraz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724","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=6724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}