{"id":2477,"date":"2015-09-19T05:36:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T05:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/19\/night-2-all-canadian-wine-championships-2015\/"},"modified":"2015-09-19T05:36:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T05:36:31","slug":"night-2-all-canadian-wine-championships-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/19\/night-2-all-canadian-wine-championships-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Night 2: All Canadian Wine Championships 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2474\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DangeloHenryArticle.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"float: right;\" width=\"200\" height=\"246\" \/>(May 13, 2015) &#8230;<\/strong><\/em> Tonight at the All Canadian Wine Championships was bring your bottles to the restaurant night and I pull out some old Ontario to see where they were. My first experimental wine was an hommage to our former judging region, Lake Erie North Shore &#8230; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>D&#8217;Angelo 2002 Reserve Pinot Noir<\/em><\/span> &#8211; what a nightmare of a wine. I remember talking to sal years ago when this wine was released and he said he had built it to age and win competitions, well it has done neither. And I don&#8217;t care how much flak I get for saying this, the plastic cork has turned this wine and turned it into something hard to drink, dirty and harsh; there was not a dry eye in the house over this wine, especially who remember trying it in its youth.<\/p>\n<p>Next, a bottle of base model <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Henry of Pelham 2007 Pinot Noir<\/em><\/span> &#8230; This was a real surprise and Eye-opener for those tasters not from Ontario and not exposed to Henry on a regular basis. Aromas proved inviting witb earthy, black cherry, cassis, and hints of pepper; the palate was a more settled down affair with sour cherry, slight cranberry, and white pepper &#8230; Still really pleasant, its drink now cause I can&#8217;t see this getting any better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other wines brought by other people &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2475\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/QG2013PinotNoir.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"float: right;\" width=\"100\" height=\"135\" \/>I believe the bottle of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Quails&#8217; Gate 2013 Pinot Noir, Stewart Family Reserve<\/em><\/span> was a left over from the morning tasting and it was a real gem. Lovely red fruits, hints of violets and white pepper, this is the kind of Pinot you could Lionel Richie &#8211; all night long.<\/p>\n<p>My buddy Marty, who knows I&#8217;m a Zin-nut brought a bottle of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>St Francis <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2476\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/StFrancis2007Zin.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"float: right;\" width=\"100\" height=\"135\" \/>2007 &#8216;Old Vines&#8217; Zinfandel<\/em><\/span>, it did not go with any of the mains this evening but it was still a lovely wine with plum, spice, black cherry, and peppery goodness &#8211; this one went fast, so I&#8217;m sad to say I only had the half glass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(May 13, 2015) &#8230; Tonight at the All Canadian Wine Championships was bring your bottles to the restaurant night and I pull out some old Ontario to see where they were. My first experimental wine was an hommage to our former judging region, Lake Erie North Shore &#8230; D&#8217;Angelo 2002 Reserve Pinot Noir &#8211; what [&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-2477","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\/2477","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=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}