{"id":2954,"date":"2016-09-29T19:02:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T19:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/29\/henri-bourgeois-2003-petit-bourgeois-rouge-france\/"},"modified":"2016-09-29T19:02:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T19:02:31","slug":"henri-bourgeois-2003-petit-bourgeois-rouge-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/29\/henri-bourgeois-2003-petit-bourgeois-rouge-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Henri Bourgeois 2003 Petit Bourgeois Rouge (France)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wf_caption\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 7px; display: inline-table;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2951\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PetitBourgeois2003.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin: auto;\" width=\"200\" height=\"148\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>(February 8, 2016) &#8230;<\/strong><\/em> I&#8217;m a lover of Cabernet Franc and this bottle from the Loire should have been right up my alley, but in truth I like what Ontario (Canada) is doing with Franc, and the French version just seems green and weedy to me &#8230; Here is a thirteen year old bottle that I was not sure what to expect from. It started off smoky with licorice, burnt toast, and some herbal \/ savoury notes &#8230; An hour plus later smoky remains but now it contains green peppers and dried black raspberry seasoned with anise seed; I could do without the green pepper but certainly was thrilled with the rest and how this bottle has stood the test of time. That it&#8217;s not completely dead is testament enough for me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On this night I actually opened three bottles, but two of them were spoiled &#8211; not necessarily because the wines were old but they were never given a chance because of their plastic cork &#8230; damn you plastic cork!&nbsp; The offenders were two bottles of 2003 Laroche (as pictured below).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2952\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Laroche_Ruined_Bottles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"93\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2953\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Plastic_Corks-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"93\" height=\"125\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(February 8, 2016) &#8230; I&#8217;m a lover of Cabernet Franc and this bottle from the Loire should have been right up my alley, but in truth I like what Ontario (Canada) is doing with Franc, and the French version just seems green and weedy to me &#8230; Here is a thirteen year old bottle that [&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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2954","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\/2954","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=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}