{"id":36,"date":"2011-04-30T10:26:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T10:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegrufiles.com.au\/?p=36"},"modified":"2012-08-30T22:38:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T22:38:40","slug":"gruner-in-the-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegrufiles.com.au\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Gruner in the tank!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegrufiles.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/HHW-logo_Plus-ADHills_300dpi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"adelaide hills wine region hahndorf hill\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thegrufiles.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/HHW-logo_Plus-ADHills_300dpi-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vintage 2011 has been long and challenging right across Australia &#8211; but Hahndorf Hill has been fortunate with the Gruner Veltliner harvest. A combination of strong, healthy vines and perhaps some natural resistance to Botrytis, culminated in a successful harvest\u00c2\u00a0on\u00c2\u00a0March 24th.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegrufiles.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Optimized-Gemma-IMGP0686.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40 \" title=\"adelaide hills wine hahndorf hill\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thegrufiles.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Optimized-Gemma-IMGP0686-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thegrufiles.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Optimized-Gemma-IMGP0686-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.thegrufiles.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Optimized-Gemma-IMGP0686.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larry and Gemma West with Gruner 2011 in hand.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The juice has now been fully fermented and talented young winemaker Gemma West and I are more than delighted with the results.<\/p>\n<p>We can report that there are wonderful crunchy pear and apple aromas together with lightly peppered, caramelised parsnip and a twist of slaty minerality.\u00c2\u00a0 A truly\u00c2\u00a0complex and exciting wine!<\/p>\n<p>This baby still has quite a while to go before being bottled and will be released in October this year.<\/p>\n<p>For pre-release allocations and further information\u00c2\u00a0please go to <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ilfxBa\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/ilfxBa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vintage 2011 has been long and challenging right across Australia &#8211; but Hahndorf Hill has been fortunate with the Gruner Veltliner harvest. A combination of strong, healthy vines and perhaps some natural resistance to Botrytis, culminated in a successful harvest\u00c2\u00a0on\u00c2\u00a0March &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegrufiles.com.au\/?p=36\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,8],"tags":[37,9,38,10,7],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adelaide-hills","category-gruner-veltliner","category-wine","tag-adelaide-hills","tag-gru","tag-gruner-veltliner","tag-harvest","tag-new-planting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegrufiles.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegrufiles.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegrufiles.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegrufiles.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegrufiles.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegrufiles.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegrufiles.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegrufiles.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegrufiles.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}