{"id":4236,"date":"2017-12-17T11:36:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T11:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/17\/taste-it-again-vineland-2010-pinot-meunier\/"},"modified":"2017-12-17T11:36:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T11:36:23","slug":"taste-it-again-vineland-2010-pinot-meunier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/17\/taste-it-again-vineland-2010-pinot-meunier\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste it Again: Vineland 2010 Pinot Meunier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-4235\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Vineland_Meunier_2.jpg\" alt=\"Vinleand Meunier 2010\" style=\"margin-left: 7px; float: right;\" width=\"175\" height=\"254\" \/>(September 25, 2016) &#8230;<\/strong><\/em> Alright, this is the only solo Pinot Meunier made in Ontario, and it&#8217;s not made into a sparkling wine, it&#8217;s a still red &#8230; A real oddity, but winemaker Brian Schmidt needed a place to put this grape and decided to do something unique &#8230; The aromas are deep, red ripe cherry, sweet cranberry, and hints of plum &#8211; it&#8217;s surprisingly still quite the alluring wine at 6 years old and on the palate it&#8217;s just as exciting: plum, and cherry, with great acidity and white pepper &#8230; There&#8217;s also a hint of earthiness, and cigarette smoke on the finish.&nbsp; I even put a slight chill on the wine and that seemed to liven the fruit up to the point where I could swear this was a California Pinot Noir; it&#8217;s a delicious bottle of wine and a shocker at that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/ontario-wine-reviews\/details\/8\/3880-vineland-estates-2010-pinot-meunier\" target=\"_blank\">To see the original review click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(September 25, 2016) &#8230; Alright, this is the only solo Pinot Meunier made in Ontario, and it&#8217;s not made into a sparkling wine, it&#8217;s a still red &#8230; A real oddity, but winemaker Brian Schmidt needed a place to put this grape and decided to do something unique &#8230; The aromas are deep, red ripe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[140,84,109,81,91,193],"class_list":["post-4236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lost-a-found-taste-it-again","tag-2010-vintage","tag-ontario-wine","tag-pinot-meunier","tag-red-wine","tag-taste-it-again","tag-vineland-estates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236","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=4236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}