{"id":4439,"date":"2019-03-29T13:32:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T13:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/29\/taste-washington-red-white-party\/"},"modified":"2019-03-29T13:32:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T13:32:24","slug":"taste-washington-red-white-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/29\/taste-washington-red-white-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste Washington : Red &#038; White Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-4434\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Red__White_Party_6.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"350\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Red__White_Party_6.jpg 350w, https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Red__White_Party_6-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taste Washington kicks off their three day festivities with the Red &amp; White Party held at Aqua Restaurant on the waterfront in Seattle: 30 wineries are in attendance pouring a total of 65 wines &ndash; I wandered round the room and tasted 47 of them &hellip; and here were my findings and favourites:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Best Wine of the Night &hellip;&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-4435\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Red__White_Party_2.jpg\" alt=\"Va Piano\" style=\"margin-left: 7px; float: right;\" width=\"143\" height=\"197\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Va Piano Vineyards 2015 Rosebud Cabernet Sauvignon<\/em><\/span> &hellip; (**** &frac12;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bubbling Under for the Best &hellip;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Dunham Cellars 2014 Kenny Hill Cabernet Sauvignon<\/em><\/span> &hellip; (****+)<br \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Long Shadows 2013 Sequel &ldquo;Bin 898&rdquo; Vintage Select Syrah<\/em><\/span> &hellip; (****+)<br \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Passing Time Winery 2016 Cabernet Red Mountain<\/em><\/span> &hellip; (****+)<br \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-4436\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Red__White_Party_11.jpg\" alt=\"Sparkman Darkness\" style=\"margin-right: 7px; float: left;\" width=\"140\" height=\"129\" \/>Sparkman Cellars 2014 Darkness Syrah<\/em><\/span> &hellip; (****+)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Four Stars Wines I&rsquo;ll Remember &hellip;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>DeLille Cellars 2016 Quintessence<\/em><\/span> &hellip; (****)<br \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Leonetti Cellar 2015 Merlot<\/em><\/span> &hellip; (****)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-4437\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Red__White_Party_9.jpg\" alt=\"Leonetti Merlot\" style=\"margin-left: 7px; float: right;\" width=\"140\" height=\"222\" \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Obelisco Estate Winery 2015 III Nefer Cabernet Sauvignon<\/em><\/span> &hellip; (****)<br \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Passing Time Winery 2016 Cabernet Walla Walla<\/em><\/span> &hellip; (****)<br \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Quilceda Creek 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Columbia Valley<\/em><\/span> &hellip; (****)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Rest That Impressed &hellip;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Dunham Cellars 2016 Shirley Mays Chardonnay<\/em><\/span> &hellip; (*** &frac12;)<br \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Figgins 2011 Estate Red<\/em><\/span> &hellip; (*** &frac12;)<br \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Guardian Cellars 2015 Felony Cabernet<\/em><\/span> &hellip; (*** &frac12;+)<br \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Long Shadows 2007 Feather Vintage Select Cabernet Sauvignon<\/em><\/span> &hellip; (*** &frac12;+)<br \/><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Mark Ryan 2017 Chardonnay<\/em><\/span> &hellip; (*** &frac12;+)<br \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Mark Ryan 2016 Lonely Heart<\/em><\/span> &hellip; (*** &frac12;+)<br \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Passing Time Winery 2016 Cabernet Horse Heaven Hills<\/em><\/span> &hellip; (*** &frac12;)<br \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Quilceda Creek 2014 Palengat Propreitary Red Wine<\/em><\/span> &hellip; (*** &frac12;+)<br \/><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Tranche Cellars 2016 Blue Mountain Grenache Blanc<\/em><\/span> &hellip; (*** &frac12;)<br \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Walla Walla Vintners 2013 Vintners Cut Bank Estate Vottavo<\/em><\/span> &hellip; (*** &frac12;)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-4438\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Red__White_Party_7.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"174\" height=\"125\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taste Washington kicks off their three day festivities with the Red &amp; White Party held at Aqua Restaurant on the waterfront in Seattle: 30 wineries are in attendance pouring a total of 65 wines &ndash; I wandered round the room and tasted 47 of them &hellip; and here were my findings and favourites: Best Wine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road-with-the-grape-guy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}