{"id":5811,"date":"2021-12-16T10:03:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T10:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/16\/night-of-the-living-pinot-noir-california-australia-ontario\/"},"modified":"2021-12-16T10:03:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T10:03:37","slug":"night-of-the-living-pinot-noir-california-australia-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/16\/night-of-the-living-pinot-noir-california-australia-ontario\/","title":{"rendered":"Night of the Living Pinots (Noir) &#8211; California \/ Australia \/ Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-5808\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Reata_8.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"355\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Reata_8.jpg 355w, https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Reata_8-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>(January 28, 2021) &#8230;<\/strong><\/em> For some unknown reason, tonight I decided to open a few Pinot Noirs and see how they had aged &#8211; and one that I just knew was good: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-5809\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Reata_5.jpg\" alt=\"Reata Pinot Noir\" style=\"margin-left: 7px; float: right;\" width=\"155\" height=\"140\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Reata 2011 Pinot Noir, Napa &amp; Sonoma County &#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/em> Smoky notes with dark fruit and spicy-peppery-licorice at its core. It slowly developed those older notes, but that pepperiness started to dominate, but there was a nice hit of acidity that continued all the way through &#8230; Proved to be quite flavourful throughout the evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Pikes 2010 Lenswood Hills Pinot Noir, Adelaide Hills &#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/span> Earthy, black cherry, licorice\/anise and spice ALL make an appearance, but this one seems to stay the same all the way thru &#8211; with one of It&#8217;s selling features being that good acidity &#8211; but the wine also gets kinda boring as it never really seems to change, develop or go anywhere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My other bottle I opened was a <strong>Closson Chase 2017 Pinot Noir Churchside Vineyard<\/strong> from Prince Edward County, which was too young to really talk about in an &#8220;old wine&#8221; review; but it was one tasty wine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-5810\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Reata_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"255\" height=\"120\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(January 28, 2021) &#8230; For some unknown reason, tonight I decided to open a few Pinot Noirs and see how they had aged &#8211; and one that I just knew was good: Reata 2011 Pinot Noir, Napa &amp; Sonoma County &#8230; Smoky notes with dark fruit and spicy-peppery-licorice at its core. It slowly developed those [&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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-drinking-tonight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811","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=5811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}