{"id":518,"date":"2010-03-31T21:09:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T21:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintuition.net:\/main\/?p=518"},"modified":"2012-03-18T12:44:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T12:44:26","slug":"chateau-larrivet-haut-brion-pessac-leognan-2004-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintuition.net:\/main\/2010\/03\/31\/chateau-larrivet-haut-brion-pessac-leognan-2004-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Ch\u00e2teau Larrivet Haut-Brion, Pessac-Leognan 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ch\u00e2teau Larrivet Haut-Brion, Pessac-Leognan 2004 (12.5%)<br \/>\nIn appearance, this has a very deep, opaque, dark ruby core with a narrow rim, just showing some evolution. The nose is clean and incisive, initially with sweet cedar, cigar box and spice followed by blackberries, blackcurrant leaf and dark old fashioned liquorice &#8211; a classic red Bordeaux nose.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOn the palate, it has a seductively silky texture and smoothness followed by juicy, vibrant, lingering acidity and refined but firmly textured tannins. In the middle there are flavours of blackcurrant, liquorice and a hint of leafiness which gives it an edge. It has lovely weight and balance.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_637\" style=\"width: 93px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-637\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vintuition.net:\/main\/?attachment_id=637\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-637\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-637\" title=\"Ch\u00e2teau Larrivet Haut-Brion, Pessac-Leognan 2004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vintuition.net:\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Larrivet2-83x288.jpg\" alt=\"Ch\u00e2teau Larrivet Haut-Brion, Pessac-Leognan 2004\" width=\"83\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ch\u00e2teau Larrivet Haut-Brion, Pessac-Leognan 2004<\/p><\/div>This is not an over-powering &#8216;wine-on-steroids&#8217; type of wine but is understated and elegant, yet undeniably powerful with its long, savoury liquorice notes on the finish.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWhat I really love about this wine is the seductive silkiness of the texture combined with a strong, characterful backbone of tannins and acidity &#8211; beautiful but powerful at the same time in an understated and elegant way. I have long admired the wines of Pessac-Leognan for their elegance and beautiful balance and weight.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis wine is \u00a324.49 from Waitrose and worth every penny. I make no apologies for including a more expensive wine in the review because I think it really delivers on quality. Besides, if you go into any bar or pub you can easily end up paying as much or more (once they&#8217;ve added a double or triple mark-up) for a very ordinary wine.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis wine is over-delivering on quality so I recommend you buy it; cook something delicious such as roast lamb or good quality beef and enjoy it over Easter.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ch\u00e2teau Larrivet Haut-Brion, Pessac-Leognan 2004 (12.5%) In appearance, this has a very deep, opaque, dark ruby core with a narrow rim, just showing some evolution. The nose is clean and incisive, initially with sweet cedar, cigar box and spice followed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintuition.net:\/main\/2010\/03\/31\/chateau-larrivet-haut-brion-pessac-leognan-2004-12\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[8],"tags":[30,31,29],"producer":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintuition.net:\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintuition.net:\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintuition.net:\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintuition.net:\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintuition.net:\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintuition.net:\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2591,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintuition.net:\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/2591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintuition.net:\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintuition.net:\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintuition.net:\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintuition.net:\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"producer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintuition.net:\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/producer?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}