{"id":2213,"date":"2015-03-12T15:13:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T15:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/12\/an-odd-grouping-of-wines-british-columbia-beaujolais-california\/"},"modified":"2015-03-12T15:13:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T15:13:32","slug":"an-odd-grouping-of-wines-british-columbia-beaujolais-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/12\/an-odd-grouping-of-wines-british-columbia-beaujolais-california\/","title":{"rendered":"An Odd Grouping of Wines (British Columbia \/ Beaujolais \/ California)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"(December 27, 2015) …<\/strong><\/em> Dinner chez nous, and our Chardonnay-friend is in attendance, time to pull out something interesting, like a Mission Hill 2006 Perpetua<\/strong> from Canada’s west coast.  I don’t know what I was expecting here but I got more than I bargained for.  At first the wine was muted and didn’t reveal much on either nose or palate, but it soon came around and the nose doled out small doses of butter, apricot, and cinnamon; palate proved to be creamy, with poached peach notes that were seasoned with cinnamon then showed off an applesque finish.  In the end the wine showed itself to be light, creamy, and easy drinking … I would not wait any longer with this one and was glad to have caught it in the phase it’s currently in.<\/p>\n

\"\"Next wine was an Albert Bichot 2006 Beaujolais-Villages, Domaines Monthoux<\/strong> … I love Beaujolais and Gamay wines, this one in particular was a delight when I first tried it, and one I definitely thought aging would make even more interesting.  Imagine my shock when I pealed the capsule to find plastic cork … Luckily I chilled the wine which I was hoping would counterbalance any effects the cork may have had.  Its a nice dream that can defeat a bad closure.  The cherry comes through and a little anise seed, but the wine also seemed muted and dumb, though this could also be due to its age.  It does develop a hint of raspberry and bitter cherry on the mid-palate to finish, but overall was an uninspiring wine.<\/p>\n

\"\"I just picked up the recent vintage of the Cline Big Break Zinfandel<\/strong> from my Michigan connection, so I felt the need to try an older version; so out came one of my bottles of the 2006<\/strong>.  Without a doubt this was the best wine of the night with its spiced raspberry and vanilla aromas, and a complex and layered palate full of black raspberry, cassis, white pepper, spiced-plum, and mocha\/coffee notes – finished proved to be a little simpler with its plum, spice and vanilla-cola linger; all-in-all this was one delicious bottle of wine and quite possibly this wine is at the peak of its life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(December 27, 2015) … Dinner chez nous, and our Chardonnay-friend is in attendance, time to pull out something interesting, like a Mission Hill 2006 Perpetua from Canada’s west coast.  I don’t know what I was expecting here but I got more than I bargained for.  At first the wine was muted and didn’t reveal much […]<\/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-2213","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\/2213","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=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}