{"id":4468,"date":"2019-04-18T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/18\/ontario-reviews-winery-spotlight-leaning-post\/"},"modified":"2019-04-18T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T09:29:00","slug":"ontario-reviews-winery-spotlight-leaning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/18\/ontario-reviews-winery-spotlight-leaning-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Reviews : Winery Spotlight &#8211; Leaning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another winery spotlight, and this time I&#8217;m looking at the current wines of Leaning Post &#8230; Winemaker Ilya Senchuk and his wife Nadia own the the farm and their own little piece of heaven (and a chicken is never far from the front door of the tasting room), their winery is one of the first you&#8217;ll pass on your drive from Toronto to Niagara, a mere 50 minutes from the big city (on a &#8220;good&#8221;&nbsp; traffic day). Their newly renovated and redesigned tasting room is comfortable and ready to greet you, and is a far cry from the old beat up barn experience it once was &#8230; and Ilya is making a number of wines that will both please the masses as well as those special wines he makes for himself, that he hopes you will like too. Below is a list of my 6 top rated, and most exciting, wines currently in their portfolio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>In addition to the six reviews below (and one International selection) be sure to check out the Side Bar for the latest videos and podcasts <br \/>plus links to reviews of older wines, cellar dwellers, published articles, On the Road notes and more.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-4467\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Leaning_Post.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"200\" height=\"56\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<em>Click on the wines name to see the full review:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/ontario-wine-reviews\/details\/8\/7586-leaning-post-2015-pinot-noir-lowrey-vineyard\" target=\"_blank\">Leaning Post 2015 Pinot Noir, Lowrey Vineyard<\/a> &#8230; (****+)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/ontario-wine-reviews\/details\/8\/7587-leaning-post-2016-blend-one\" target=\"_blank\">Leaning Post 2016 Blend One<\/a> &#8230; (****+)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/ontario-wine-reviews\/details\/8\/7588-leaning-post-2016-cabernet-franc\" target=\"_blank\">Leaning Post 2016 Cabernet Franc<\/a> &#8230; (****+)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/ontario-wine-reviews\/details\/8\/7589-leaning-post-2016-pinot-noir-senchuk-vineyard\" target=\"_blank\">Leaning Post 2016 Pinot Noir, Senchuk Vineyard<\/a> &#8230; (**** &frac12;)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/ontario-wine-reviews\/details\/8\/7590-leaning-post-2016-syrah-keczan-vineyard\" target=\"_blank\">Leaning Post 2016 Syrah, Keczan Vineyard<\/a> &#8230; (****+)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/ontario-wine-reviews\/details\/8\/7591-leaning-post-2017-gamay-wismer-armbrust-vineyard\" target=\"_blank\">Leaning Post 2017 Gamay, Wismer-Armbrust Vineyard<\/a> &#8230; (****+)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Plus &#8230; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Some International Flair:&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wine-reviews\/details\/4\/7592-masi-2015-campofiorin\" target=\"_blank\">Masi 2015 Campofiorin<\/a><\/strong> (Veneto, Italy)<strong> &#8230; ****+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong><em>To see the full newsletter please click on the link below:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/8689314da1ae\/ontario-wine-review-newsletter-spotlight-on-leaning-post\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ontario Reviews : Winery Spotlight &#8211; Leaning Post<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Another winery spotlight, and this time I&#8217;m looking at the current wines of Leaning Post &#8230; Winemaker Ilya Senchuk and his wife Nadia own the the farm and their own little piece of heaven (and a chicken is never far from the front door of the tasting room), their winery is one of the [&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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-owr-newsletter-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468","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=4468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}