{"id":2302,"date":"2015-05-19T17:23:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T17:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/19\/nobile-welcome-dinner-with-carpineto-italy\/"},"modified":"2015-05-19T17:23:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T17:23:27","slug":"nobile-welcome-dinner-with-carpineto-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/19\/nobile-welcome-dinner-with-carpineto-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobile Welcome Dinner with Carpineto (Italy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2300\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Carpineto_2001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"202\" \/>(February 18, 2015) &#8230;<\/strong> <\/em>It&#8217;s the Vino Nobile welcome dinner in Tuscany, Italy and I&#8217;m jazzed to be sitting at the table with members of the Carpineto family. Usually at these dinners I put pen away and just enjoy the food, the wine and the atmosphere &#8230; But tonight it was a little different as the family had a few of the oldest bottles in the room and they were worth talking about (and taking notes about), even if ever so briefly: &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Carpineto 2001 Poggio Sant&#8217; Enrico, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano<\/strong><\/span> showed outstanding depth of character and balance of fruit. Is it peaking? Only time will really tell but I can&#8217;t imagine it will get any better than this (one can only hope).&nbsp; The finish also has a very appealing licorice and spice notes that keeps you coming back for more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2301\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Carpineto_1995.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"202\" \/>The second bottle from the Carpineto clan was the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1995 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Riserva<\/span><\/strong>, it&#8217;s old, and past its prime but very drinkable.&nbsp; Plenty of cedar couching what I am assuming was quite a bit of fruit in its hey-day &#8230; I&#8217;m pretty sure that there is not much longer left in this bottle, but I was honored to taste it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(February 18, 2015) &#8230; It&#8217;s the Vino Nobile welcome dinner in Tuscany, Italy and I&#8217;m jazzed to be sitting at the table with members of the Carpineto family. Usually at these dinners I put pen away and just enjoy the food, the wine and the atmosphere &#8230; But tonight it was a little different as [&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-2302","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\/2302","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=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}