{"id":4088,"date":"2017-10-08T16:46:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T16:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/08\/a-combo-of-big-reds-chile-australia\/"},"modified":"2017-10-08T16:46:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T16:46:35","slug":"a-combo-of-big-reds-chile-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/08\/a-combo-of-big-reds-chile-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"A Combo of Big Reds (Chile \/ Australia)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-4086\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Montes_2012.jpg\" alt=\"Montes 2012 Cab Sauv\" style=\"margin-left: 7px; float: right;\" width=\"150\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>(April 10, 2017) &#8230;<\/strong><\/em> On the road tonight at a friend&#8217;s house and I noticed it was big reds night once I pulled my two bottles out, one from Australia and the other from Chile, both Cabernet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Let&#8217;s start with the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Montes Alpha 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, a wonderful bottle that was great when released and so far just keeps getting better: lovely minty blackberry along with cassis, spiced-plum and silky tannins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-4087\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Heartland_2008.jpg\" alt=\"Heartland 2008 Cab Sauv\" style=\"margin-right: 7px; float: left;\" width=\"150\" height=\"217\" \/>I followed that up with an&nbsp; even older Cab from Australia, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Ben Glaetzer 2008 Heartland Cabernet Sauvignon<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, and this one delivered on big flavour as well, and being nine years old it also showed great complexity: eucalyptus, black cherry, spiced-plum, black raspberry, and sweet licorice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Very happy with both wines &#8230; More thrilled with the Aussie due to its age.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(April 10, 2017) &#8230; On the road tonight at a friend&#8217;s house and I noticed it was big reds night once I pulled my two bottles out, one from Australia and the other from Chile, both Cabernet. Let&#8217;s start with the Montes Alpha 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon, a wonderful bottle that was great when released and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[142,119,72,548,69,120,121],"class_list":["post-4088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-what-im-drinking-tonight","tag-2008-vintage","tag-2012-vintage","tag-australia","tag-ben-glaetzer","tag-cabernet-sauvignon","tag-chile","tag-montes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088","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=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}