{"id":2426,"date":"2015-08-12T18:01:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T18:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/12\/taste-it-again-lost-found-old-stoney-ridge-wines-with-jeff-kim\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T03:55:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:55:52","slug":"taste-it-again-lost-found-old-stoney-ridge-wines-with-jeff-kim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/12\/taste-it-again-lost-found-old-stoney-ridge-wines-with-jeff-kim\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste it Again \/ Lost &#038; Found: Old Stoney Ridge Wines with Jeff &#038; Kim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>(April 25, 2015) &#8230;<\/strong><\/em> Tonight we&#8217;re invited to a get together with friends Jeff and Kim, and because they have an affiliation with a certain winery (one works for and the other is married to the guy who works for) I brought along a few bottles of older wines from said winery.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2425\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/StoneyRidge_3a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/StoneyRidge_3a.jpg 320w, https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/StoneyRidge_3a-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>Alright the guessing game is over, or it should have been just by looking at the title of this post &#8230; Here we&#8217;re trying 3 old Stoney Ridge wines, a sparkling and two Francs. You always start with bubbles, and as it turns out it is one of Kim&#8217;s favourite styles of wine (and I can not find fault in that what-so-ever), <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><em>2005 Proprietor&#8217;s Reserve Brut Sparkling Wine<\/em> <\/span>&#8211; I don&#8217;t know how many times Stoney Ridge made bubbles but I do know this was their first, and it was such a great bottle of bubbles back when it was released &#8230; Fast forward ten years from vintage date and the question is, was would it still hold up? Answer: surprisingly well. Nose is apple and lemon while the palate was also lovely and fresh with apple, and a touch of lemon pith, the only drawback was the waning acidity &#8230; But the color barely showed a hint of age &#8211; maybe light lemon (if you care about those kind of things) &#8211; all I know is not a drop was left. What a great way to start the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Next up is a hot vintage comparison between the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>2002 and 2005 Wismer Vineyard Reserve Cabernet Franc<\/strong><\/span>. Now the last time I had the 2005 was with my father-in-law when I brought a bottle to Michigan back in September (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/30\/taste-it-again-stoney-ridge-2005-reserve-wismer-vineyard-cabernet-franc\/\">read that rave reviews here<\/a>) &#8230; As for the 2002 it was an interesting aged version. Nose came across meaty, and port-like, while the palate shows a touch of cedar, along with dried cherries, cassis, meaty notes and smoky characteristics &#8211; it softens quickly but still retains great acidity. These wines really show the beauty of aged Ontario wines in a hot vintage..<\/p>\n<p><strong>My original Stoney Ridge reviews:<\/strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/ontario-wine-reviews\/details\/8\/4650-stoney-ridge-2005-proprietor-s-reserve-brut-sparkling-wine\">2005 Proprietor&#8217;s Reserve Brut Sparkling Wine<\/a><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/05\/antinori-chianti-classico-estate-tuscany-italy\/\">2005 Wismer Vineyard Reserve Cabernet Franc<\/a><br \/>2002 Wismer Vineyard Reserve Cabernet Franc (no previous review)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(April 25, 2015) &#8230; Tonight we&#8217;re invited to a get together with friends Jeff and Kim, and because they have an affiliation with a certain winery (one works for and the other is married to the guy who works for) I brought along a few bottles of older wines from said winery. Alright the guessing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lost-a-found-taste-it-again"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426","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=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7484,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions\/7484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}