{"id":2415,"date":"2015-08-07T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/07\/ribs-and-zin-at-joe-s-california\/"},"modified":"2015-08-07T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T16:25:00","slug":"ribs-and-zin-at-joe-s-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/07\/ribs-and-zin-at-joe-s-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Ribs and Zin at Joe’s (California)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"(April 19, 2015) …<\/em><\/strong> It was one of those April weekends that you wish always happened – weather-wise and other-wise.  Yesterday I dropped the mic on a gorgeous Ravenswood Zinfandel … today we’re invited over to my neighbour’s place for a mess of ribs … and what better wine to bring along than Zin – and not just one bottle, but three:<\/p>\n

The oldest bottle I brought along was a Artezin 2003 Zinfandel<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, a blend of 12% Napa \/ 21% Amador \/ 67% Mendocino fruit … for those that have no faith in Zin ageing best think again, when a good one ages it gets elegant and this was no exception.  Nose is all dried red fruit and vanilla; palate is still youthful of fruit with plum, cherry, oak-spice and vanilla, there’s even a smoky note and some great acidity to keep everything in check.  As J.J. Walker used to say, “Dy-no-mite”.<\/p>\n

\"\"I then cracked something a little younger, Cline 2008 Ancient Vines Zinfandel<\/span><\/strong><\/em>.  I have had some pretty lame Ancient Vines from Cline over the past years as they seem to be getting sweeter with more alcohol, but the ’08 was a watershed for me, because it was the first Ancient Vines I tried and might still be one of the best, even with 7 years under its belt.  Aromas are olfatory awakening with plum, vanilla, and black cherry … palate was round and full of flavour:  juicy with spiced-plum, vanilla bean, black cherry, and just the right amount of spice for balance.  Man I could open a bottle of this wine every year and every year it would impress.<\/p>\n

If memory serves the Canadiens were in their playoff run at this time and so we crossed backyards back to my place where I opened my third and final Zin of the evening, a JanKris 2004 Tres Ranchos Zinfandel<\/span><\/em><\/strong> … yet again a Zin with lots to offer and one that barely showed its age.  Nose of raspberry, spice, oak, and cassis; a palate that was exceptionally smooth yet with spicy notes of peppered-raspberry. The \"\"finish pretty much follows as expected from the nose and palate: great raspberry and spice linger with a plummy smoothness.  If I was not a fan of this grape before tonight I would have been after … as for my neighbour Joe … he’s became a fan on the first bottle and it was solidified by the last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(April 19, 2015) … It was one of those April weekends that you wish always happened – weather-wise and other-wise.  Yesterday I dropped the mic on a gorgeous Ravenswood Zinfandel … today we’re invited over to my neighbour’s place for a mess of ribs … and what better wine to bring along than Zin – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2415","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\/2415","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=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}