{"id":8933,"date":"2024-06-18T15:52:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T13:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/?p=8933"},"modified":"2026-03-23T17:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:00:27","slug":"decanter-if-bordeaux-got-out-of-its-own-way-more-people-might-see-what-theyre-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/2024\/06\/decanter-if-bordeaux-got-out-of-its-own-way-more-people-might-see-what-theyre-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Decanter &#8211; If Bordeaux got out of its own way, more people might see what they&#8217;re missing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In my glass this month:<\/p>\n<p>From time to time, I&#8217;ll open a white wine that&#8217;s past its best: flat, thin, lifeless. It&#8217;s always disappointing. Not so with the Opalie, Bordeaux 2020 (\u00a330-\u00a334 Honest Grapes, Ideal Wine Co, IG Wines, Starling Wines), a dry white Sauvignon Blanc-Semillon blend from Barsac&#8217;s Ch\u00e2teau Coutet, I was actually too early. It wasn&#8217;t so much &#8216;singing&#8217; as learning its lines and doing some vocal exercises. Subtle but concentrated, tangy but tightly wound, it was delicious &#8211; and will be more so in a year or two.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>Charlie Geoghegan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my glass this month: From time to time, I&#8217;ll open a white wine that&#8217;s past its best: flat, thin, lifeless. It&#8217;s always disappointing. Not so with the Opalie, Bordeaux 2020 (\u00a330-\u00a334 Honest Grapes, Ideal Wine Co, IG Wines, Starling Wines), a dry white Sauvignon Blanc-Semillon blend from Barsac&#8217;s Ch\u00e2teau Coutet, I was actually too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cat_press"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8938,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8933\/revisions\/8938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateaucoutet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}