{"id":2497,"date":"2015-09-29T13:16:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T13:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/29\/the-food-family-summer-begins\/"},"modified":"2015-09-29T13:16:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T13:16:01","slug":"the-food-family-summer-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/29\/the-food-family-summer-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Food & Family Summer Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"(May 23, 2015) …<\/strong> <\/em>So my niece and soon-to-be nephew came to town and we had a hell of an afternoon of food and wine from the likes of Creekside and Honsberger … Problems began when we got home, and the question became: ‘who felt like more food and more wine?’ Well the wine was no problem, as we opened a bottle of Creekside 2012 Iconoclast Syrah<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, just to show my ever wine-curious nephew the difference between the 2013 Syrahs tried at Creekside vs those made in 2012 … I reviewed this wine recently so click here to see it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"We then went a little lighter in the wine department as we lit the BBQ to grill up some garlic butter shrimp and opened a delightful bottle of Hitching Post 2009 Hometown Pinot Noir<\/span><\/strong><\/em>. Hitching Post is the famous eatery where Milo met Mia in Sideways … And they are right the Pinots made under this brand are quite lovely: a nose of strawberry, clove, and anise leads to a palate loaded wine red berries like strawberry and raspberry, plus the addition of white pepper; the core of this wine is juicy with hints of white pepper, and good tannins on the finish.<\/p>\n

\"\"Next on the menu tonight was striploin steak and what better way to enjoy that than with an Antu 2012 Syrah<\/strong><\/em><\/span> from Chile. There’s some of that typical minty blackberry and hint of cherry; the mint continues on the palate with white pepper, smoky, blackberry, and black cherry notes. This is a really big wine and a tasty one.<\/p>\n

And that was the beginning of my summer of too much food and lots of family – stay tuned for more on both.<\/p>\n

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(May 23, 2015) … So my niece and soon-to-be nephew came to town and we had a hell of an afternoon of food and wine from the likes of Creekside and Honsberger … Problems began when we got home, and the question became: ‘who felt like more food and more wine?’ Well the wine was […]<\/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-2497","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\/2497","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=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}