{"id":6308,"date":"2023-04-11T22:49:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T22:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/11\/tenuta-monteti-2016-toscana-maremma\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T22:49:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T22:49:07","slug":"tenuta-monteti-2016-toscana-maremma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/11\/tenuta-monteti-2016-toscana-maremma\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenuta Monteti 2016 Toscana (Maremma)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-6307\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Monteti_1.jpg\" alt=\"Monteti\" style=\"margin-left: 7px; float: right;\" width=\"150\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Maremma (Tuscany) wine that is Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon with 18 months in French oak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Opens easily &#8211; it&#8217;s not that old, so I have high hopes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NOSE:<\/strong> pencil shavings, pretty smoked-cherry and subtle cedar<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TASTE:<\/strong> mocha, coffee, dry, cinnamon, smoke with good acidity and a long finish..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>1.5 &#8211; 2 hrs later &#8230;<\/strong><br \/>notes of cherry and spice, it is slowly smoothing out, the fruit is darkening<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>24 hrs later &#8230;<\/strong><br \/>Oh boy &#8230; what a gorgeous wine &#8211; even better than the first day &#8230; smooth and silky with a touch of smoke and a touch of tannins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Bottom Line &#8230;<\/strong><br \/>Fruit has emerged with smoky notes, the tannins have dropped way down and there is lovely clean acidity. This is a silky wine. Beauty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A Maremma (Tuscany) wine that is Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon with 18 months in French oak. Opens easily &#8211; it&#8217;s not that old, so I have high hopes NOSE: pencil shavings, pretty smoked-cherry and subtle cedar TASTE: mocha, coffee, dry, cinnamon, smoke with good acidity and a long finish.. 1.5 &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/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-6308","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\/6308","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=6308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}