{"id":2244,"date":"2015-04-09T19:14:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T19:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/09\/stefano-lubiana-2007-pinot-noir-australia\/"},"modified":"2015-04-09T19:14:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T19:14:25","slug":"stefano-lubiana-2007-pinot-noir-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/09\/stefano-lubiana-2007-pinot-noir-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefano Lubiana 2007 Pinot Noir (Australia)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2243\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Stefano2007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"266\" \/>(January 17, 2015) &#8230;<\/strong> <\/em>As has become tradition since moving to St Catharines, we have some friends over for dinner around the holidays. This year we opened some 8 or 9 bottles of truly excellent wine, but that can also mean that some, brought by guests, get left behind for me to try later.&nbsp; One of my friends brought a bottle of Tasmanian Pinot Noir from Stefano Lubiana (which he informed me is &#8220;made by a friend if mine&#8221;) &#8211; I was told that the 2007 was a hot vintage in Tassie and this is to be drunk sooner rather than later &#8230; So a month and a bit later I unscrewed the cap and poured myself a glass, and another, and then another.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll start by getting my bias out of the way:&nbsp; I do love me some well made Tasmanian Pinot, my friend didn&#8217;t know that, but a few years ago I tasted my first Tas-Pinot and was smitten. Since then whenever it comes into the province I look forward to trying it, and am rarely disappointed.&nbsp; This Lubiana was yet another notch on my &#8216;why I&nbsp; love&#8217; board.&nbsp; Aromas of violets, white pepper, and cranberry hinted at a delicacy even for a hot vintage &#8211; palate was floral\/violets with sour cherry, anise, touches of white pepper and gentle spices on the long finish. Another bottle of Tasmanian Pinot that does not disappoint &#8211; if you have not tried Pinot from this part of Australia it is time you find your way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(January 17, 2015) &#8230; As has become tradition since moving to St Catharines, we have some friends over for dinner around the holidays. This year we opened some 8 or 9 bottles of truly excellent wine, but that can also mean that some, brought by guests, get left behind for me to try later.&nbsp; One [&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-2244","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\/2244","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=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}