{"id":3559,"date":"2017-01-23T21:18:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T21:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/23\/may-24-weekend-ontario-california-spain\/"},"modified":"2017-01-23T21:18:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T21:18:23","slug":"may-24-weekend-ontario-california-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/2017\/01\/23\/may-24-weekend-ontario-california-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"May 24 Weekend (Ontario \/ California \/ Spain)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(May 22, 2016) …<\/strong><\/em> We’re over at my brothers for a dinner on the long weekend and because they love Baco (I can’t explain this) I bring over a couple to try with them.  First up is the Aleksander 2007 Baco Noir<\/span><\/strong>:  leathery in taste and smell, bricky in colour, with elements of earth and sweet smoke – even my brother and sister-in-law find it hard to drink a full glass, but they also claim it is “not horrible”; it does not make sense to me but it does to them … so I guess I’ll go with it; they are afterall the Baco fans in the room.<\/p>\n

I also get the chance to try the newest incarnation of Baco in the Henry of Pelham<\/strong><\/span> range, and while Baco still is not my grape of choice (by a long shot) this 2014 Baco Noir, Old Vines<\/span><\/strong><\/a> ($19.95) has real wine character, the Speck brothers have done it again – taking a lowly, unimpressive grape and turned it into a proper wine (folks this is a skill):  blackberry, \"\"<\/span>cassis, mocha, black cherry, with a nice hit of spiced black-cherry and acid on the finish. I would also like to take this opportunity to remind you if you like Henry of Pelham Baco, and it’s the only Baco you can name, you are NOT a “Baco fan” you are a Henry of Pelham Baco fan, there’s a distinction there.  (****+)<\/p>\n

Moving on … California also came to the party in the form of a Toasted Head 2010 Untamed Red<\/span><\/strong>, a blend of Syrah 45% \/ Petite Sirah 28% \/ Zinfandel 14% \/ Merlot 9% \/ Tannat 3% and Tempranillo 1% … Red and black fruit with hints of plum, spice and licorice … interesting red that probably was not meant for aging this long but does show fun characteristics that make it more interesting – drink young, but I see this wine as one of copycats of the Apothic reds of the world but with a little something extra – you don’t make it this long with it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span>We ended up in Spain with a delicious Honoro Vera 2013 Garnacha<\/span><\/strong>, not much complexity but a whole lotta flavour:  rich plum, blackberry, black cherry and spice; juicy and delicious.<\/p>\n

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(May 22, 2016) … We’re over at my brothers for a dinner on the long weekend and because they love Baco (I can’t explain this) I bring over a couple to try with them.  First up is the Aleksander 2007 Baco Noir:  leathery in taste and smell, bricky in colour, with elements of earth and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[140,118,271,298,58,73,54,133],"class_list":["post-3559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lost-a-found-taste-it-again","tag-2010-vintage","tag-2013-vintage","tag-2014-vintage","tag-baco-noir","tag-california","tag-grenache","tag-red-blend","tag-spain"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559","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=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}