{"id":4075,"date":"2017-10-08T15:11:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T15:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/08\/taste-it-again-chateau-des-charmes-2010-gamay-noir-droit\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T18:13:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:13:51","slug":"taste-it-again-chateau-des-charmes-2010-gamay-noir-droit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/08\/taste-it-again-chateau-des-charmes-2010-gamay-noir-droit\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste it Again:  Chateau des Charmes 2010 Gamay Noir &#8216;Droit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-4074\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Droit_2010_a.jpg\" alt=\"Chateau des Charmes 2010 Gamay Droit\" style=\"margin-left: 7px; float: right;\" width=\"140\" height=\"155\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>(April 12, 2017) &#8230;<\/strong><\/em> I kicked off the evening with what I presumed would be a throw-away wine, Chateau des Charmes 2010 Gamay Noir Droit, I never expect much from this wine when I find an aged bottle (5+ years), up until a few years back I thought the wine was oak aged, but I found out it is unoaked, which really confuses my mind, especially when you taste this wine. As it turned out this 2010 version is not over-the-hill, in fact it is exquisite and drinking quite well:&nbsp; blueberry, pepper,&nbsp; cassis, blackberry, still lively and slightly smoky (where does that come from?) plus a little boysenberry on the finish helps round it out. WOW!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/27\/video-review-vina-tarapaca-2015-gran-reserva-pinot-noir-chile\/\" target=\"_blank\">check out the original review here<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; (April 12, 2017) &#8230; I kicked off the evening with what I presumed would be a throw-away wine, Chateau des Charmes 2010 Gamay Noir Droit, I never expect much from this wine when I find an aged bottle (5+ years), up until a few years back I thought the wine was oak aged, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[140,191,90,61,40,81],"class_list":["post-4075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lost-a-found-taste-it-again","tag-2010-vintage","tag-chateau-des-charmes","tag-gamay-noir","tag-niagara-on-the-lake","tag-ontario","tag-red-wine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075","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=4075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9382,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075\/revisions\/9382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}