{"id":6734,"date":"2007-03-26T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/the-french-connection-2\/"},"modified":"2007-03-26T22:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T22:41:00","slug":"the-french-connection-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2007\/03\/the-french-connection-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THE FRENCH CONNECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.co.uk\/rodeime\/VINTNEWS\/photo?authkey=z2TXO9lQWUA#5088060907528807282\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.google.co.uk\/rodeime\/RpxscAzOY3I\/AAAAAAAAAj8\/vr0n8-TsaIQ\/s288\/unoaked%20chardy%20NV.JPG\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\"><\/a>IF the dictionary defines watershed as \u201ca dividing line\u2026 going to a new and higher level,\u201d then the Margaret River\u2019s Watershed Premium Wines has achieved just that with its 2006 Chardonnay.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a classic wine made by French-born Severine Logan, who brought together fruit from both the northern and central regions of the Margaret River, and then eschewed the use of oak to allow the sweet peach-like and citrus flavours of the fruit itself to spin its magic.<\/p>\n<p>And with these fully-forward fruit flavours, supported by a more-ish, creamy smooth finish, its given a wine that begs to go on the table with a cold seafood salad before winter has us thinking heavier meals and heartier reds.<\/p>\n<p>Severine, who graduated from both Toulouse and Orleans Universities in France, joined Watershed after jetting between Australian and French vintages for over a decade; her work included with such prestigious French labels as Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, Chateau Latour and BRL Hardy\u2019s Domaine de La Baume in Languedoc, and in-between with leading makers here that included Brown Brothers, Sandalford, Houghton and Rosemount, before becoming Watershed\u2019s Head Winemaker.   <\/p>\n<p>Snap up her 2006 Watershed Margaret River Chardonnay at $16.95.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IF the dictionary defines watershed as \u201ca dividing line\u2026 going to a new and higher level,\u201d then the Margaret River\u2019s Watershed Premium Wines has achieved just that with its 2006 Chardonnay. Here\u2019s a classic wine made by French-born Severine Logan, who brought together fruit from both the northern and central regions of the Margaret River, [&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":[399,401],"class_list":["post-6734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-chardonnay","tag-margaret-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6734","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=6734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}