{"id":3016,"date":"2016-11-16T16:24:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T16:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/16\/taste-it-again-couple-of-chards-plus\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T03:55:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:55:58","slug":"taste-it-again-couple-of-chards-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/16\/taste-it-again-couple-of-chards-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste it Again: Couple of Chards Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/span>(April 3, 2016) …<\/strong> <\/em>So what started out as a couple of Chardonnays turned into a mix of red and white night, let’s take a look at how some of these older wines did:<\/p>\n

Lailey 2008 Chardonnay Old Vines<\/strong><\/a> …<\/em> This is one of those wines that makes me look at the new project by former Lailey winemaker Derek Barnett (Meldville Wines) with excitement. Here we have an 8 year old Chardonnay that is in perfect working order. Nose is full-on butterscotch, marzipan, and hazelnut; while the palate has all that buttery, spicy, goodness plus acidity to spare. As the wine sat in glass it developed more complexity with spiced-caramel, a little salty-mineral, and some pleasant pralines.\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Daniel Lenko 2010 Chardonnay American Oak …<\/strong><\/em><\/a> Stepping it up two years and we see the influence of American Oak on Ontario old vines Chardonnay. Lots of caramel, vanilla, apple-peach-pear, but for the most part it’s subtle of fruit and big on vanilla-caramel … The palate seems to also follow suit with Werther’s original butterscotch \/ toffee and vanilla-spice flavours taking over … There seems to be a thick (read creamy) viscous note to the palate but with good acidity which stops it from being to cloying and heavy (something I usually associate with icewine and not Chardonnay).\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Flat Rock 2007 Pinot Noir …<\/strong><\/em><\/a> My first red was the wine that flavoured the stew that morning (opened at 9am) … you just knew I would taste it at that time and then again at 6:30pm when we sat down to dinner – in the proceeding hours the black, sour cherry and smoked-cranberry flavours had oxidized, and while the acidity was still quite good the smoky-earthy notes had started to take over the wine – my advice here is that it is ready to drink so just go for it.<\/p>\n

Featherstone 2010 Cabernet Franc …<\/strong><\/em><\/a> Long a go-to Franc for those who like the grape, this annual value staple from\"\"<\/span> Featherstone has aged very well. The nose is pretty much where I expect it to be at 6 years of age, with earthy, tobacco, and cassis aromas followed by smoky-tobacco, earthy and spiced sour raspberry\/strawberry on a silky smooth palate, adding a touch of white pepper to the finish. Lovely. Dirnking well now and most likely for the next couple of years.<\/p>\n

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  (April 3, 2016) … So what started out as a couple of Chardonnays turned into a mix of red and white night, let’s take a look at how some of these older wines did: Lailey 2008 Chardonnay Old Vines … This is one of those wines that makes me look at the new project […]<\/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-3016","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\/3016","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=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7528,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions\/7528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}