{"id":3384,"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":"2016-11-16T16:24:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T16:24:43","slug":"taste-it-again-couple-of-chards-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/2016\/11\/16\/taste-it-again-couple-of-chards-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste it Again: Couple of Chards Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><span class=\"wf_caption\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 7px; display: inline-table;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-3380\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Lailey2008Chard.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"float: right;\" width=\"170\" height=\"192\" \/><\/span>(April 3, 2016) &#8230;<\/strong> <\/em>So what started out as a couple of Chardonnays turned into a mix of red and white night, let&#8217;s take a look at how some of these older wines did:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/ontario-wine-reviews\/details\/8\/4142-lailey-2008-old-vines-chardonnay\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lailey 2008 Chardonnay Old Vines<\/strong><\/a> &#8230;<\/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 class=\"wf_caption\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 7px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-3381\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Lenko2010Chard.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"float: left;\" width=\"170\" height=\"253\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/ontario-wine-reviews\/details\/8\/2710-daniel-lenko-2010-chardonnay-old-vines\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Daniel Lenko 2010 Chardonnay American Oak &#8230;<\/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&#8217;s subtle of fruit and big on vanilla-caramel &#8230; The palate seems to also follow suit with Werther&#8217;s original butterscotch \/ toffee and vanilla-spice flavours taking over &#8230; 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 class=\"wf_caption\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 7px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-3382\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/FlatRock2007Pinot.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"float: right;\" width=\"170\" height=\"255\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/ontario-wine-reviews\/details\/8\/4052-flat-rock-cellars-2007-pinot-noir\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Flat Rock 2007 Pinot Noir &#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/a> My first red was the wine that flavoured the stew that morning (opened at 9am) &#8230; you just knew I would taste it at that time and then again at 6:30pm when we sat down to dinner &#8211; 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 &#8211; my advice here is that it is ready to drink so just go for it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/ontario-wine-reviews\/details\/8\/3479-featherstone-2010-cabernet-franc\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Featherstone 2010 Cabernet Franc &#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/a> Long a go-to Franc for those who like the grape, this annual value staple from<span class=\"wf_caption\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 7px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-3383\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Feather2010Franc.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"float: left;\" width=\"170\" height=\"217\" \/><\/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<p><strong>Click on wine name above to see original review.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; (April 3, 2016) &#8230; So what started out as a couple of Chardonnays turned into a mix of red and white night, let&#8217;s take a look at how some of these older wines did: Lailey 2008 Chardonnay Old Vines &#8230; This is one of those wines that makes me look at the new project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[92,142,140,149,42,221,97,127,105,41,91],"class_list":["post-3384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lost-a-found-taste-it-again","tag-2007-vintage","tag-2008-vintage","tag-2010-vintage","tag-cabernet-franc","tag-chardonnay","tag-daniel-lenko","tag-featherstone-estate","tag-flat-rock-cellars","tag-lailey","tag-pinot-noir","tag-taste-it-again"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}