{"id":2507,"date":"2015-10-05T15:37:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T15:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/05\/taste-it-again-pondview-2009-bella-terra-cabernet-franc\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T03:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:55:53","slug":"taste-it-again-pondview-2009-bella-terra-cabernet-franc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/05\/taste-it-again-pondview-2009-bella-terra-cabernet-franc\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste it Again: Pondview 2009 Bella Terra Cabernet Franc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2506\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Pondview2009CF_article.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"float: right;\" width=\"134\" height=\"235\" \/>(May 25, 2015) &#8230;<\/strong><\/em> 2009 was a great vintage for Pinot Noir and Riesling &#8230; But mean to the Bordeaux varieties. Here we have what is considered to be a top of the line wine from Pondview, but now I ask: why a Franc in this vintage? The nose hints at what is to happen with its oak spice, cassis, tobacco, and spiced raspberry; very little in the way of a fresh fruit anywhere &#8211; but there does seem to be some. The palate is what shows the emperor has no clothes: it still has some real grit to those tannins, there&#8217;s also spice and pepper everywhere and whatever fruit is available is all spiced-up with an aftertaste of vanilla, cinnamon and dried tobacco leaf &#8211; but even with an hour-plus in glass those tannins never seemed to smooth out. If you like your wines gritty and spicy this&#8217;ll do the trick, sadly I think fruit here is thing of the past. I said in my original review &#8220;mid-term cellaring 2013-2018&#8221; &#8211; I thing the time to drink is now. I have another bottle and will be cracking it sooner than later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/19\/podcast-346-why-does-the-lcbo-suck-so-bad-is-natural-wine-dead-riesling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the original review here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(May 25, 2015) &#8230; 2009 was a great vintage for Pinot Noir and Riesling &#8230; But mean to the Bordeaux varieties. Here we have what is considered to be a top of the line wine from Pondview, but now I ask: why a Franc in this vintage? The nose hints at what is to happen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2507","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\/2507","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=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7492,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions\/7492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}