{"id":6305,"date":"2011-12-21T00:35:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T22:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/sharks-and-goats-dot-quest-for-good-wine-on-the-cheap\/"},"modified":"2011-12-21T00:35:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T22:35:48","slug":"sharks-and-goats-dot-quest-for-good-wine-on-the-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sharks-and-goats-dot-quest-for-good-wine-on-the-cheap\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks and goats dot quest for good wine on the cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Pauline Askin<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">SYDNEY<\/span> Dec 20 (Reuters) &#8211; Natalie MacLean is a wine<br \/>\ncheapskate and proud of it.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Her quest to discover tasty, drinkable vintages that don&#8217;t<br \/>\nput buyers too far out of pocket took her on an epic journey<br \/>\nthat included diving with sharks and milking goats as well as<br \/>\nmore mundane visits to wineries.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Her goal: finding a terrific, inexpensive bottle of wine for<br \/>\neach night of the week, plus an extra one for Sunday lunch.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that you can find wines in the $10 to $20 range<br \/>\nthat taste twice as expensive as they cost,&#8221; she told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why pay more for pleasure than you have to?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MacLean shares her secrets for sniffing out good but<br \/>\ninexpensive tipples in &#8220;Unquenchable, a Tipsy Quest for the<br \/>\nWorld&#8217;s Best Bargain Wines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the past, when I was asked &#8216;Can you recommend a great<br \/>\nwine that costs less than $20, my answer was: &#8216;Not unless all<br \/>\nyou want is a wet tongue,'&#8221; MacLean said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But this journey proved to me that wine doesn&#8217;t have to be<br \/>\nexpensive to taste great, and that every wine has a story and a<br \/>\nperson behind the bottle that brings it to life.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Pauline Askin SYDNEY Dec 20 (Reuters) &#8211; Natalie MacLean is a wine cheapskate and proud of it. Her quest to discover tasty, drinkable vintages that don&#8217;t put buyers too far out of pocket took her on an epic journey that included diving with sharks and milking goats as well as more mundane visits to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}