{"id":4182,"date":"2017-12-06T05:23:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T05:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/06\/battle-of-the-2004s-australia-california\/"},"modified":"2017-12-06T05:23:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T05:23:36","slug":"battle-of-the-2004s-australia-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/06\/battle-of-the-2004s-australia-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the 2004s (Australia \/ California)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-4180\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Battle_of_2004s_2.jpg\" alt=\"Guenoc 2004 Petite Sirah\" width=\"124\" height=\"159\" style=\"margin-left: 7px; float: right;\" \/>(August 28, 2016) &#8230; Went into the cellar and grabbed out two bottles from the 2004 vintage starting with a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Guenoc 2004 Petite Sirah<\/em><\/span>, from California; at 12 years of age it might have been something exciting, but with the plastic closure the winery was saying it&#8217;s a drink now wine &#8211; BUT THEY DID NOT MENTION THAT ANYWHERE ON THE BOTTLE &#8211; so now 12 years later I pay dearly for their inconsiderate labeling. This wine is totally undrinkable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-4181\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Battle_of_2004s_3.jpg\" alt=\"Rolling 2004 Cab Merlot\" width=\"155\" height=\"169\" style=\"margin-right: 7px; float: left;\" \/>So I move on to the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Cumulus 2004 Rolling Cabernet Merlot<\/em><\/span> from Australia: aromas immediately grab my attention: eucalyptus, cassis, and mocha &#8211; that mocha follows through on the palate mixing in spice and dried blackberry with hints of eucalyptus\/mint; within half-an-hour the alcohol begins to show thru and makes it a little more difficult to drink, but that first 30 minutes was a real revelation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(August 28, 2016) &#8230; Went into the cellar and grabbed out two bottles from the 2004 vintage starting with a Guenoc 2004 Petite Sirah, from California; at 12 years of age it might have been something exciting, but with the plastic closure the winery was saying it&#8217;s a drink now wine &#8211; BUT THEY DID [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[169,72,58,598,597,220,54,596,170],"class_list":["post-4182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-what-im-drinking-tonight","tag-2004-vintage","tag-australia","tag-california","tag-cumulus","tag-guenoc","tag-petite-sirah","tag-red-blend","tag-uncorked-tonight","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182","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=4182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}