{"id":2985,"date":"2016-03-11T15:48:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T15:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/11\/taste-it-again-hillebrand-2009-showcase-sauvignon-blanc-sparkling\/"},"modified":"2016-03-11T15:48:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T15:48:04","slug":"taste-it-again-hillebrand-2009-showcase-sauvignon-blanc-sparkling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/11\/taste-it-again-hillebrand-2009-showcase-sauvignon-blanc-sparkling\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste it Again: Hillebrand 2009 Showcase Sauvignon Blanc Sparkling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wf_caption\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2984\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Hillebrand_2009SparklingSB_article.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"270\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>(September 10, 2015) &#8230;<\/strong><\/em> Gotta love a good aged Sparkling, but before you open it you&#8217;re just looking at a bottle of promise &#8230; Though I&#8217;d have to say that a 6 year old Sauvignon Blanc sparkling is a crap shoot &#8211; aged Savvy B can be quite the odd-ball wine, but with bubbly you never know what&#8217;s going to happen. Aroma-wise this one started with hints of grapefruit pith (and that&#8217;s about it) &#8230; the palate showed off much more: a mineral, zesty nature with plenty of vibrant acidity, a touch of melon rind, and a grapefruit pith\/zest finish. It has stood up well to time; and there&#8217;s still life left in those old bones (so to speak).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/ontario-wine-reviews\/details\/8\/3098-hillebrand-2009-showcase-sparkling-sauvignon-blanc\">To see the original review of the 2009 Showcase Sparkling Sauvignon Blanc, click here<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(September 10, 2015) &#8230; Gotta love a good aged Sparkling, but before you open it you&#8217;re just looking at a bottle of promise &#8230; Though I&#8217;d have to say that a 6 year old Sauvignon Blanc sparkling is a crap shoot &#8211; aged Savvy B can be quite the odd-ball wine, but with bubbly you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[122,210,84,98,108],"class_list":["post-2985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lost-a-found-taste-it-again","tag-2009-vintage","tag-hillebrand-trius","tag-ontario-wine","tag-sauvignon-blanc","tag-sparkling-wine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}