{"id":6337,"date":"2023-06-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/16\/video-review-lighthall-2019-chardonnay\/"},"modified":"2023-06-16T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T09:00:00","slug":"video-review-lighthall-2019-chardonnay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/16\/video-review-lighthall-2019-chardonnay\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Review : Lighthall 2019 Chardonnay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Michael Pinkus Wine Review presents,<br \/><\/strong><\/span><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>An Ontario Wine Video Review <\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong>with the Grape Guy, Michael Pinkus, check it out<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Today&#8217;s wine:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Lighthall Vineyards<br \/>2019 Chardonnay<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"su-youtube su-u-responsive-media-yes\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ikrG4zYDuso?\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture\" title=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/MichaelPinkus?gvnc=1\" target=\"_blank\">To get the latest videos<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/MichaelPinkus?gvnc=1\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to the Michael Pinkus YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">THE WRITTEN REVIEW &#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Lighthall pulled way back on oak usage for the 2019. 60% of the wine sees steel, while the other 40% sees the inside of 500L barrels; that helps elevate the crisp, clean and freshness factor in this wine. There&#8217;s still a vanilla &ndash; butteriness, but it&#8217;s backed by peach, apricot and nectarine notes and loaded with acidity to help balance out the fruit &#8230; In a nutshell: the fruit shines, the acidity balances and the oak provides backdrops&#8230; Nice balancing act here. (****+)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Pinkus Wine Review presents,&nbsp; An Ontario Wine Video Review with the Grape Guy, Michael Pinkus, check it out Today&#8217;s wine: Lighthall Vineyards2019 Chardonnay To get the latest videosSubscribe to the Michael Pinkus YouTube Channel &nbsp; THE WRITTEN REVIEW &#8230; Lighthall pulled way back on oak usage for the 2019. 60% of the wine sees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-wine-note-and-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6337","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=6337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}