{"id":384,"date":"2019-04-22T21:01:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T20:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/?p=384"},"modified":"2019-04-22T21:01:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T20:01:10","slug":"2018-vintage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/2019\/04\/22\/2018-vintage\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Vintage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I did <a href=\"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2019\/04\/22\/my-blue-heaven\/\">manage to achieve<\/a> this Easter holiday was to bottle the Bronte Estate 2018 wines&#8230; rose, white, cottage redcurrant, blackberry and cherry. In all, 54 bottles\u20144 with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christopher_Merret\">added sparkle<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The blackberry should be drinkable this year; experience shows we might have to wait until 2020 at least to open the rose and the white. We&#8217;ll see&#8230; and with the new vines Jenny bought me last week, very tempted to move as much production as possible to merret.<\/p>\n<p>Because you need a USP, and because I can.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4537.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4537.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"409\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4537.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4537-300x153.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4537-768x393.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4539.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4539.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4539.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4539-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4545.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4545.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"474\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4545.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4545-300x178.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4545-768x455.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4547.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4547.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4547.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4547-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I did manage to achieve this Easter holiday was to bottle the Bronte Estate 2018 wines&#8230; rose, white, cottage redcurrant, blackberry and cherry. In all, 54 bottles\u20144 with added sparkle. The blackberry should be drinkable this year; experience shows we might have to wait until 2020 at least to open the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[100,101,99],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine","tag-100","tag-merret","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}