{"id":5753,"date":"2019-12-17T07:48:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T07:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/17\/two-from-the-lucky-country-australia\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T07:48:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T07:48:41","slug":"two-from-the-lucky-country-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/2019\/12\/17\/two-from-the-lucky-country-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Two from The Lucky Country (Australia)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I noticed in my wine cellar that I had some wine from The Lucky Country, a brand from Two Hands, so this week I decided to open both of them and see how they were doing.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-5751\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lucky_Country_3.jpg\" alt=\"Lucky Country 2003\" style=\"margin-left: 7px; float: right;\" width=\"150\" height=\"183\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>October 12, 2019 &#8230;<\/strong> <\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Two Hands 2003 The Lucky Country<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is a blend of 85% Grenache \/ 10% Shiraz \/ 5% Mourvedre &#8230; kicking things off were the aromas of licorice, dried raspberry, along with subtle plum, backed by coffee bean; on the palate there was an intense silkiness &#8211; super smooth, almost creamy &#8211; with flavours of spiced-and-dried plum, along with notes of forest floor and white pepper &#8211; as the wine began to really open you could find hint of mocha beginning to emerge &#8230; I&#8217;m happy with this one as it proved to be well-rounded and easy drinking for an older wine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-5752\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lucky_Country_2.jpg\" alt=\"Lucky Country 2006\" style=\"margin-right: 7px; float: left;\" width=\"150\" height=\"256\" \/>October 14, 2019 &#8230;<\/strong><\/em> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Two Hands 2006 The Lucky Country Shiraz<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This solo Shiraz, three years younger than its predecessor showed very different, yet still appealing, character starting with spiced-plum, new leather, raspberry\/strawberry jam on the nose; the palate had lots of pepper and spice, along with mocha and burnt cherry. As it sat and opened up through the course of the evening it took a different turn; while it was fruit forward from the outset it develops into a spice \/ acid bomb by the time the first hour was up &#8211; enjoyable for about an hour and a half, after that it&#8217;s pretty harsh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I noticed in my wine cellar that I had some wine from The Lucky Country, a brand from Two Hands, so this week I decided to open both of them and see how they were doing. October 12, 2019 &#8230; Two Hands 2003 The Lucky Country This is a blend of 85% Grenache \/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[162,110,72,845,54,74,1050,329],"class_list":["post-5753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-what-im-drinking-tonight","tag-2003-vintage","tag-2006-vintage","tag-australia","tag-australian-wine","tag-red-blend","tag-shiraz","tag-the-lucky-country","tag-two-hands-wines"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}