{"id":2333,"date":"2015-06-17T14:16:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T14:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/17\/another-chardonnay-night-california-ontario\/"},"modified":"2015-06-17T14:16:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T14:16:43","slug":"another-chardonnay-night-california-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/17\/another-chardonnay-night-california-ontario\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Chardonnay Night (California \/ Ontario)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>(March 13, 2015) &#8230;<\/strong> <\/em>These Chardonnay nights are getting to be a little too frequent for my liking &#8230; But if I am going to do it I want the wines to interest me. Which is why I found these two older bottles in my cellar and decided to pop their corks this evening.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2331\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Wente_Morning.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"270\" \/>I kicked it off with a <strong>Wente 2007 Morning Fog Chardonnay<\/strong>, at the time of its release, and still to this day, I think it one of the best Morning Fog Chardonnay&#8217;s I have tried &#8230; But that was then and this, is now. I was not surprised by its rich golden colour, nor by the nose of almond skin, praline, a little smoky, caramel apple &#8211; and over the course of about half an hour it developed a slight creamed corn note.&nbsp; The palate is very much a let down, although there was really good acidity still, there was also peach pit, buttered toffee, touch a almond\/praline and before you smelled it you could taste those hints of creamed corn. It&#8217;s definitely a wine that has seen better days &#8230; The good news is the current release (2013) reminds me of the 2007 &#8211; so buy it now and drink much sooner.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2332\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Lailey_CanOak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"270\" \/>My next bottle was a <strong>Lailey 2008 Canadian Oak Chardonnay<\/strong> &#8230; Unlike its American counterpart the Canadian wine (aged in Canadian derived oak might I add) had a pleasant pineapple, coconut, and apple aroma followed on the palate by peach schnapps, apple core, coconut husk, peach pit, a decent amount of minerality, and a pinch of vanilla. The acidity has held up well and continues to be the backbone of this wine along with its long finish. I think the surprise here was that after some 6+ years the wine still maintains a certain element of freshness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(March 13, 2015) &#8230; These Chardonnay nights are getting to be a little too frequent for my liking &#8230; But if I am going to do it I want the wines to interest me. Which is why I found these two older bottles in my cellar and decided to pop their corks this evening. I [&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-2333","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\/2333","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=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}