{"id":2473,"date":"2015-09-19T05:09:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T05:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/19\/night-1-all-canadian-wine-championships-2015\/"},"modified":"2015-09-19T05:09:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T05:09:13","slug":"night-1-all-canadian-wine-championships-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/19\/night-1-all-canadian-wine-championships-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Night 1: All Canadian Wine Championships 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2472\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ChakanaGil.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"float: right;\" width=\"200\" height=\"270\" \/>(May 12, 2015) &#8230;<\/strong> <\/em>Night one of the All Canadian Wine Championships and after a day of Canada I like to open a few things from &#8220;away&#8221; &#8230; Tonight it was a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Juan Gil 2006 Monastrell<\/em><\/span> from the Jumilla region of Spain. Last time I opened an older bottle of this I was aghast to see a plastic cork, this time there was no such surprise. The nose was full of dried cranberry, oak, and cedar; sure seemed quite old aroma-wise. Palate still retained good acidity and much more fruit and spice than the nose let on &#8211; sure it&#8217;s mainly dried fruit but it was still quite lovely to drink.<\/p>\n<p>The next bottle was of Argentinean origin, <em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Chakana 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon<\/span><\/em> &#8230; It was under a black plastic cork and this scared me a bit, but one must soldier on &#8230; The nose was incredibly muted, as in there was no smell to speak of, but the palate proved to be surprisingly robust of red and dark fruit and nicely balance &#8230; The wine died fairly quickly but was drinkable for a little while anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(May 12, 2015) &#8230; Night one of the All Canadian Wine Championships and after a day of Canada I like to open a few things from &#8220;away&#8221; &#8230; Tonight it was a Juan Gil 2006 Monastrell from the Jumilla region of Spain. Last time I opened an older bottle of this I was aghast to [&hellip;]<\/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-2473","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\/2473","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=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}