{"id":1858,"date":"2012-01-24T16:40:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T16:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2012-02-04T16:45:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T16:45:36","slug":"producer-on-the-bike-albert-jane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/producer-on-the-bike-albert-jane\/","title":{"rendered":"Producer on the bike &#8211; Albert Jan\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dreary day in London town, but no day so dreary it cannot be lightened by adding to our occasional series of visiting producers on Patrick&#8217;s motorbike. The old Ducati ST4 has been worn through pounding\u00a0round the restaurants\u00a0of London, and has been replaced by an even more ancient Sneeze sorry Cagiva &#8216;Grand Canyon&#8217; which\u00a0was obviously previously owned by a real fair-weather and weekend-only biker, since he had only managed 4500km in\u00a0ten years. So far so good, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway today we have Albert Jan\u00e9 from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/wine-producer\/bodegas-acustic-1072-04.html\">Bodegas Ac\u00fastic<\/a> on a flying visit which was planned to take in several west end and City restaurants, where his amazing old vine Garnatxa\u00a0y Samso (Grenache and Carignan)\u00a0wines from Monsant (Spain) are a cult phenomenon. These wines deliver\u00a0spicy\u00a0power with old vine depth and real delicacy and finesse.<\/p>\n<p>After a brief consultation he decided to brave the weather, and fully loaded with his luggage and some tasting samples they set off&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Winemaker-on-the-bike-3-Albert-Jan\u00e9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1859\" title=\"Winemaker on the bike - Albert Jan\u00e9 of Bodegas Ac\u00fastic\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Winemaker-on-the-bike-3-Albert-Jan\u00e9.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"416\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreary day in London town, but no day so dreary it cannot be lightened by adding to our occasional series of visiting producers on Patrick&#8217;s motorbike. The old Ducati ST4 has been worn through pounding\u00a0round the restaurants\u00a0of London, and has been replaced by an even more ancient Sneeze sorry Cagiva &#8216;Grand Canyon&#8217; which\u00a0was obviously previously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,106],"tags":[170,169,171,172,820],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monsant","category-spain","tag-acustic-celler","tag-albert-jane","tag-cagiva","tag-ducati","tag-monsant"],"contentshake_article_id":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Producer on the bike - Albert Jan\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dreary day in London town, but no day so dreary it cannot be lightened by adding to our occasional series of visiting producers on Patrick&#039;s motorbike.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/producer-on-the-bike-albert-jane\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Producer on the bike - Albert Jan\u00e9\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dreary day in London town, but no day so dreary it cannot be lightened by adding to our occasional series of visiting producers on Patrick&#039;s motorbike.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/producer-on-the-bike-albert-jane\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lea &amp; 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