{"id":42113,"date":"2017-06-22T09:32:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T09:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/?p=42113"},"modified":"2017-08-04T10:52:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T10:52:21","slug":"boekenhoutskloof-syrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/boekenhoutskloof-syrah\/","title":{"rendered":"Boekenhoutskloof Syrah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Estate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Boekenhoutskloof Syrah, a product of the Boekenhoutskloof estate was established in 1776 and it is located in the furthest corner of the beautiful Franschhoek valley, the farm&#8217;s name means &#8220;ravine of the Boekenhout&#8221; (pronounced Book-n-Howed). Boekenhout is an indigenous Cape Beech tree greatly prized for furniture making.<\/p>\n<p>In 1993 the farm and homestead was bought and restored and a new vineyard planting programme was established that now includes Boekenhoutskloof Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Grenache, Semillon and Viognier.<\/p>\n<p>Boekenhout is an indigenous Cape Beech tree greatly prized for making fine furniture. The Boekenhoutskloof Syrah label features seven chairs; amongst them the country-style split splat chair made in the neo-classical style with a shouldered top rail and thonged seat from the late 18th century.<\/p>\n<p>The transitional Tulbagh chair was made in the late 18th century, it has a plain back and a shaped top rail with a half-round opening.The chairs on our wine label all pay tribute to the skills of the 18th-century craftsmen and their achievements in creating beauty from natural sources, just like the pursuit of fine wine-making.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Tasting Notes<br \/>\nOn the nose<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>Loads of violets, blackcurrant fruit pastilles white and black pepper with jamon and petrichor adding to the complexity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On the palate<br \/>\n<\/strong>The purity and depth of fruit, firm velvety tannins and refreshing acidity shows the massive ageing potential of this vintage. Textured, composed and seamless in style.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boekenhoutskloof.co.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">boekenhoutskloof.co.za<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Estate The Boekenhoutskloof Syrah, a product of the Boekenhoutskloof estate was established in 1776 and it is located in the furthest corner of the beautiful Franschhoek valley, the farm&#8217;s name means &#8220;ravine of the Boekenhout&#8221; (pronounced Book-n-Howed). Boekenhout is an indigenous Cape Beech tree greatly prized for furniture making. In 1993 the farm and homestead was bought and restored and a new vineyard planting programme was established that now includes Boekenhoutskloof Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Grenache, Semillon and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drinking-2","wine_type-red"],"acf":[],"brand_slug":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}