{"id":2556,"date":"2015-11-19T14:47:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T14:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/19\/taste-it-again-a-double-does-of-the-ghost-2009-vs-2013\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T03:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:55:54","slug":"taste-it-again-a-double-does-of-the-ghost-2009-vs-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/19\/taste-it-again-a-double-does-of-the-ghost-2009-vs-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste it Again: A Double Does of the Ghost 2009 vs 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>(July 4, 2015) &#8230;<\/strong><\/em> My father-in-law was here last year (September 2014) and raved about the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">2013 Ghost Creek Riesling<\/span><\/strong> as one of his favourite all time wines (now that bodes well for Ontario winemaking) &#8230; So I thought it interesting to try him out on another great Ghost Creek from years gone by in a Ghost Creek comparative tasting, starting with the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">2009<\/span><\/strong>. The nose had a bit of petrol creeping in, but also some wonderful lemon drop and bruised apple &#8230; The palate came across much fresher than the nose let on with pear, apricot, peach, and acidity that still holds up its end of the bargain on a long finish &#8211; there was even a soft and supple note from entry to mid-palate that made you feel you could squeeze your cheeks for more flavours and there&#8217;s still a good mineral sensation. In my opinion a very good representation of nicely aged Niagara Riesling. My father-in-law still preferred the 2013 (<a href=\"http:\/\/michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/ontario-wine-reviews\/details\/8\/4913-hillebrand-2013-riesling-ghost-creek\" target=\"_blank\">see the full review here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/06\/anteprima-gran-selezione-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\">To see the original review of the 2009 Ghost Creek Riesling, click here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(July 4, 2015) &#8230; My father-in-law was here last year (September 2014) and raved about the 2013 Ghost Creek Riesling as one of his favourite all time wines (now that bodes well for Ontario winemaking) &#8230; So I thought it interesting to try him out on another great Ghost Creek from years gone by in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2556","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\/2556","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=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7497,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions\/7497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}