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Upon opening … Good red colour, cork’s in good shape, using a burgundy glass for this one. <\/p>\n
NOSE:<\/strong> A little floral and a lot of dark fruit on the nose. There are some tertiary notes sneaking in.<\/p>\n TASTE:<\/strong> Aggressive notes of either tannins or wood from the beginning … I’m hoping this is not too old and that the tannins have not taken over the fruit. I’m hoping it’s just cranky.<\/p>\n 1:00 hrs later …<\/strong> 2:30 hrs later …<\/strong> Bottom Line …<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Upon opening … Good red colour, cork’s in good shape, using a burgundy glass for this one. NOSE: A little floral and a lot of dark fruit on the nose. There are some tertiary notes sneaking in. TASTE: Aggressive notes of either tannins or wood from the beginning … I’m hoping this is not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6256","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\/6256","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=6256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The nose has become more aggressively tannic, not spicy, almost woodsy – but the palate is showing signs of mellowing and smoothing. The nose and palate are running totally opposite paths.<\/p>\n
Everything has become smooth, the nose is fruit forward, the palate is black cherry, rhubarb, and strawberry with really good acidity.<\/p>\n
It started slowly, closed, introverted and uninteresting – but it really opened up. You know you’ve just had a good wine when your last sip, taken 3-plus hours after your first, is better than that first … So much better.<\/p>\n