{"id":2068,"date":"2014-12-17T21:37:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T21:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/17\/thanksgiving-2014-part-2-italy-france\/"},"modified":"2014-12-17T21:37:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T21:37:15","slug":"thanksgiving-2014-part-2-italy-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/17\/thanksgiving-2014-part-2-italy-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving 2014, Part 2 (Italy \/ France)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2066\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Yume_mini.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"202\" \/>(October 13, 2014) &#8230;<\/strong> <\/em>I love my neighbors, and I think we&#8217;ve been pretty damn lucky.&nbsp; I have heard horror stories about neighbours that at times put me off ever having any &#8230; But one of my best friend&#8217;s growing up was my next door neighbour, so they can&#8217;t be all bad, right?&nbsp; When we moved to St. Catharines I found out we hit the jackpot with some awesome ones (you just know you&#8217;ll get along when the first time you see them one is cleaning out the eaves with a hockey stick &#8211; it don&#8217;t get much more Canadian than that &#8211; the other notices you&#8217;re there without a car and offers theirs if you need it &#8230; Definitely not in Kansas anymore Toto).&nbsp; My hockey-loving neighbours invited us over for our second Thanksgiving of the season &#8230; the first was to my brother&#8217;s the night before &#8230; So of course I had to bring some wine along. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2067\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Seguret_Mini.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"202\" \/>Taking into account that he is Italian I thought I&#8217;d bring over something I found delicious the last time I tasted it, <strong>Caldora 2008 Yume, Montelpulciano D&#8217;Abruzzo<\/strong>, this hit all the right notes for him: aromas of blackberry, cassis, black cherry, with elements of sweet black licorice lingering in the background &#8230; Palate showed considerably less fruit but also held our interest with black cherry, white pepper, cinnamon and touch of toasted vanilla.&nbsp; Maybe not an exact turkey match but a delicious wine nonetheless.&nbsp; My next Thanksgiving offering came from France, and a region I had introduced my neighbour to with great success a couple of years back, Plan de Dieu in the Rhone Valley, alas in my haste to leave the house I grabbed the wrong bottle and instead grabbed a <strong>Cave de Monterail 2009 Seguret, Cote de Rhone Villages<\/strong> &#8230; This proved not to be a very successful selection with a nose that screamed sour cherry and a palate that&#8217;s most prominent feature was a bitter finish showing off a little too much oak &#8211; you can&#8217;t win them all, I&#8217;m just hoping this was a flawed bottle as I have another sitting in the cellar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(October 13, 2014) &#8230; I love my neighbors, and I think we&#8217;ve been pretty damn lucky.&nbsp; I have heard horror stories about neighbours that at times put me off ever having any &#8230; But one of my best friend&#8217;s growing up was my next door neighbour, so they can&#8217;t be all bad, right?&nbsp; When we [&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-2068","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\/2068","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=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}