{"id":1991,"date":"2014-11-16T15:28:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T15:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/16\/apollonio-2001-and-toasted-head-2005-italy-california\/"},"modified":"2014-11-16T15:28:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T15:28:22","slug":"apollonio-2001-and-toasted-head-2005-italy-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/16\/apollonio-2001-and-toasted-head-2005-italy-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Apollonio 2001 and Toasted Head 2005 (Italy \/ California)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-1989\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Apollonio2001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/>(September 5, 2014) &#8230;<\/strong><\/em> Those who follow my posts know I am a big Zinfandel fan &#8230; Neither of these two wines are of the Zin variety but I will tell you one is close.&nbsp; The <em><strong>Casa Vinicola Apollonio 2001 Valle Cupa Salento Rosso<\/strong><\/em> is a blend of Primitivo and Negroamaro from Italy and showed some real spunk with its spiced prune\/plum, and peppery finish along with slightly woody notes.&nbsp; It came across as rustic yet had a tastiness about it and a pleasant lingering finish &#8211; not at all what I expected when I opened the bottle, but definitely a pleasant surprise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-1990\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ToastedHead_2005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"77\" height=\"199\" \/>Another bottle that was opened and saw the bottom of the glass tonight was the <em><strong>Toasted Head 2005 Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon<\/strong><\/em>.&nbsp; Most people associate the Toasted Head brand with Chardonnay, but here we see a Cabernet with plenty of character, especially for a 7 year old &#8216;Big Brand&#8217; wine:&nbsp; anise, black cherry, mocha and smoke dominate this wine, with a smooth palate and enough balance to make it a very agreeable wine.&nbsp; I think I was more impressed with this wine than the Italian &#8230; I have come to expect older Italian wines to have character, which is something I rarely get from the young version of Toasted Head, so aged I would have to say it was impressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(September 5, 2014) &#8230; Those who follow my posts know I am a big Zinfandel fan &#8230; Neither of these two wines are of the Zin variety but I will tell you one is close.&nbsp; The Casa Vinicola Apollonio 2001 Valle Cupa Salento Rosso is a blend of Primitivo and Negroamaro from Italy and showed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-drinking-tonight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}