{"id":342,"date":"2016-08-11T18:08:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T18:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolnwinesociety.co.uk\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2016-08-21T10:16:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T10:16:20","slug":"july-2016-champagne-tasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lincolnwinesociety.co.uk\/blog\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"July 2016 Champagne Tasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>July\u00a0 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This month&#8217;s tasting was all about Champers!\u00a0 As the fist champagne tasting presented by Henry Speer, a wine society member was so well received we invited Henry along to present to us again.\u00a0 Henry, once again used his experiences in the champagne trade and vineyards to relate amusing and interesting tales of his experience, and of course presenting some enjoyable wines from the champagne region.\u00a0 Some of the wines that were tasted were from producers not familiar to members and priced well below some of the well known champagne producers.\u00a0 The evening seemed to be enjoyed by all which was evident from the level of chatter as everyone socialised, sharing their opinions and preferences of the wine tasted.\u00a0 The scores given for the wines tasted were well above average.\u00a0 The equal highest scoring wines were Michel Rochourt Brut NV Premier Cru (\u00a321) from The Big Red Wine Co. from Suffolk and a Bollinger Special Cuvee Brut NV (\u00a334) from Majestic Wines.\u00a0 In fact most of the wines tasted were from Majestic Wines.<\/p>\n<p>This evening was a great opportunity for all to taste wines which most of our members only try on very special occasions and was thoroughly enjoyed by all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July\u00a0 2016 This month&#8217;s tasting was all about Champers!\u00a0 As the fist champagne tasting presented by Henry Speer, a wine society member was so well received we invited Henry along to present to us again.\u00a0 Henry, once again used his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolnwinesociety.co.uk\/blog\/?p=342\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lincolnwinesociety.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lincolnwinesociety.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lincolnwinesociety.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lincolnwinesociety.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lincolnwinesociety.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lincolnwinesociety.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"http:\/\/lincolnwinesociety.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lincolnwinesociety.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lincolnwinesociety.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lincolnwinesociety.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}