{"id":2411,"date":"2015-08-06T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/06\/more-reds-with-andre-california-italy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T03:55:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:55:52","slug":"more-reds-with-andre-california-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/06\/more-reds-with-andre-california-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"More Reds with Andre (California \/ Italy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/06\/taste-it-again-lost-found-older-ontario-reds-with-andre\/\" target=\"_blank\">A continuation of a previous article &#8211; see part 1 here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2410\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Raven_Coltibuono_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"219\" \/>(April 18, 2015) &#8230; The next two bottles were not from Ontario &#8211; I found a bottle of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Coltibuono 2001 Cetamura Chianti<\/em><\/strong><\/span> &#8211; this came from my wife&#8217;s cellar when she moved here, she was given it as a gift and she just held onto it (an when it came under my care I did too) &#8230; she could not remember who gave it to her and she is not a red wine fan, so we popped the cork &#8230; alas this bottle was done, over, finished, and probably was years ago. I could not let my guests leave on such a low note, and so I opened something that they were not expecting: <strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Ravenswood 2009 Zinfandel, Sonoma County<\/span><\/em><\/strong> &#8211; Zin is a guilty pleasure of mine, I just love them, and feel I can never have enough bottles of them (you never know when a BBQ is going to break out and you&#8217;ll need a bottle) &#8230; this Ravenswood was the cat&#8217;s meow.&nbsp; Nose of plum and black cherry and a palate that just kept giving different taste experiences with each sip:&nbsp; plum, black cherry, mocha, spiced-vanilla, sounds like it could be one of those thick, syrupy-sweet Zins, but instead it had great acidity to balance everything out. And with everyone ooo-ing and aah-ing over this one there was only one thing left to do &#8230; Drop the mic, I&#8217;m done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A continuation of a previous article &#8211; see part 1 here. (April 18, 2015) &#8230; The next two bottles were not from Ontario &#8211; I found a bottle of Coltibuono 2001 Cetamura Chianti &#8211; this came from my wife&#8217;s cellar when she moved here, she was given it as a gift and she just held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2411","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\/2411","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=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7481,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions\/7481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}