{"id":2974,"date":"2016-10-20T15:48:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T15:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/20\/a-double-dose-of-farina-ripasso-italy\/"},"modified":"2016-10-20T15:48:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T15:48:01","slug":"a-double-dose-of-farina-ripasso-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/20\/a-double-dose-of-farina-ripasso-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Double Dose of Farina Ripasso (Italy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>(March 7, 2016) &#8230;<\/strong> I seem to have come across a couple of bottles of Remo Farina Ripasso in my cellar during my semi-annual clean-up and thought: &#8220;why no give these two wines a taste together&#8221; &#8211; here&#8217;s how they stacked up:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"wf_caption\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right; border: 1px solid #000000; display: inline-table;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2972\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Farina_Labels_art.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin: auto;\" width=\"200\" height=\"127\" \/><span style=\"max-width: 200px; text-align: center; display: block;\">2010 (L) &#8211; 2011 (R)<\/span><\/span>Starting with the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Farina 2010 Ripasso &#8220;Le Pezze&#8221;<\/strong><\/span>; lots of baked dark fruit here with some plum, burnt chocolate, sweet leather-tarry notes; but after about a half hour it became too harsh to drink because of all those baked and burnt notes &#8211; sadly this one has not aged well. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the other hand, the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Farina 2011 Ripasso &#8220;Le Pezze&#8221;<\/strong><\/span> was a true joy: fresh plum and raspberry on the nose with great ripe red raspberry, strawberry and hints of chocolate on the palate; the finish added subtle tannins and sweet vanilla.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was the tale of two wines and the 2011 emerged victorious.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2973\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Farina_Back-Labels.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"250\" height=\"113\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; (March 7, 2016) &#8230; I seem to have come across a couple of bottles of Remo Farina Ripasso in my cellar during my semi-annual clean-up and thought: &#8220;why no give these two wines a taste together&#8221; &#8211; here&#8217;s how they stacked up: 2010 (L) &#8211; 2011 (R)Starting with the Farina 2010 Ripasso &#8220;Le Pezze&#8221;; [&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-2974","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\/2974","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=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}