{"id":3015,"date":"2016-03-22T17:09:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T17:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/22\/disappointment-at-decisions-california\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T17:09:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T17:09:54","slug":"disappointment-at-decisions-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/22\/disappointment-at-decisions-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Disappointment at Decisions (California)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><span class=\"wf_caption\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline-table;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-3013\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Rosenblum_05Syrah.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin: auto;\" width=\"175\" height=\"258\" \/><span style=\"max-width: 175px; text-align: center; display: block;\">Spoiled by Plastic<\/span><\/span>(September 27, 2015) &#8230;<\/strong><\/em> If you ever want to see me physically weep, present me with what should be an outstanding bottle of wine, like say a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Rosenblum 2005 Syrah, Solano County &#8211; England-Shaw Vineyard<\/strong><\/em><\/span> &#8211; let me remove the capsule and then watch my shock and horror as I see beneath a (gasp) plastic cork &#8211; I could spit bullets after my initial moment of crying &#8211; why would they close a special single vineyard bottling under such an unreliable closer, surely they wanted this to age!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So I go forth and pour the wine into my glass &#8230; I&#8217;m finding the wine to be slightly oxidized and massively alcoholic, especially on the nose (the labeled 14.2% seems much hotter than this) with sweet smoked meat, and overly-sweetish dark fruit &#8230; The kicker is the off-putting finish &#8230; I&#8217;m truly crying inside. What&#8217;s worse, I also have two special vineyard Zins under the same closure. Shame on Rosenblum, low end \/ inexpensive \/ entry level &#8211; I understand &#8211; but these, for shame; and please don&#8217;t write me back telling me the wines should be fine, you damn well know they&#8217;re not! I&#8217;m pissed now! I&#8217;ve seen too many good wines wasted and great wines spoiled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"wf_caption\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline-table;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-3014\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cline_05Cashmere.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"float: right;\" width=\"175\" height=\"249\" \/><em><strong><span style=\"max-width: 175px; text-align: center; display: block;\">Saved by Cork<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span>So here I go pulling out something completely different: <em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Cline 2005 Cashmere<\/strong><\/span><\/em>, a Mourvedre, Syrah, Grenache blend, also Californian. It&#8217;s a nicely aged red from the same vintage as the Rosenblum: dried red berries, with herbal notes upon opening &#8211; but then an hour passed and boom: the nose has&nbsp; blossomed with maraschino cherry and red licorice, while the palate has a plethora of flavours: white pepper, dried cherry, spice, cassis, and black raspberry all with a long smoky, dried berry finish. After finishing this my anger is abated, until I see the price tag on the Rosenblum bottle &#8211; all I can do is seethe and drown my sorrows in the Cashmere. Congrats to Cline for the real cork closure &#8211; Boo and Hiss to Rosenblum for a truly crappy decision and ruining my night; and two other bottles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spoiled by Plastic(September 27, 2015) &#8230; If you ever want to see me physically weep, present me with what should be an outstanding bottle of wine, like say a Rosenblum 2005 Syrah, Solano County &#8211; England-Shaw Vineyard &#8211; let me remove the capsule and then watch my shock and horror as I see beneath a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[158,58,167,54,331,113],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-what-im-drinking-tonight","tag-2005-vintage","tag-california","tag-cline","tag-red-blend","tag-roseblum","tag-syrah"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","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=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}