{"id":2034,"date":"2014-12-05T21:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/05\/report-from-muscedere-cabernet-sauvignon-2007-2011-vertical-august-10-2014\/"},"modified":"2014-12-05T21:00:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T21:00:19","slug":"report-from-muscedere-cabernet-sauvignon-2007-2011-vertical-august-10-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/05\/report-from-muscedere-cabernet-sauvignon-2007-2011-vertical-august-10-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from: Muscedere Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 &#8211; 2011 Vertical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2033\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Muscedere_CSvertical.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"149\" \/><em><strong>(August 10, 2014) &#8230;<\/strong><\/em> I was invited to speak at this year Vintage Tasting for the Lake Erie North Shore wineries (now known as EPIC), which was being held at Muscedere this year &#8230; Over the course of their 8 years or so this winery has proven to be one of the flagship producers of the region.&nbsp; Its also nice to see the progression of this winery&#8217;s improvement in winemaking by winemaker Rob Muscedere &#8230; Rob invited me and fellow writer Konrad Ejbich to taste a 5-year vertical of his Cabernet Sauvignon endeavors over the years &#8211; here are the results of that tasting:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2007 &#8230;<\/strong> Cabbagy but with great finish, amazingly still drinkable<br \/><strong>2008 &#8230;<\/strong> Off-putting, tired, pruney, herbaceous &#8211; weakest of the 5<br \/><strong>2009 &#8230;<\/strong> Good fruit, nice structure, dark brooding fruit and tannins, still very much alive and kicking; for what many consider a weak vintage in Ontario the Lake Erie had very different results, weatherwise.*<br \/><strong>2010 &#8230;<\/strong> Nice balance, good sweet fruit, great drinking wine; &#8217;10 was a great year all round so it&#8217;s a no-brainer that this one stands up. ***<br \/><strong>2011 &#8230;<\/strong> Another off-vintage red that Rob has showed a deft hand with &#8230; fully dark fruited with lovely chocolate notes backing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(August 10, 2014) &#8230; I was invited to speak at this year Vintage Tasting for the Lake Erie North Shore wineries (now known as EPIC), which was being held at Muscedere this year &#8230; Over the course of their 8 years or so this winery has proven to be one of the flagship producers of [&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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road-with-the-grape-guy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","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=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}