{"id":6480,"date":"2023-11-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/18\/video-review-de-simone-vineyards-2020-merlot\/"},"modified":"2023-11-18T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T09:00:00","slug":"video-review-de-simone-vineyards-2020-merlot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/18\/video-review-de-simone-vineyards-2020-merlot\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Review : De Simone Vineyards 2020 Merlot"},"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: #ff0000;\">De Simone Vineyards <br \/>2020 Merlot<\/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\/P0Y5488g0A4?\" 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>Any question that 2020 was a good vintage; heck, a great vintage, should be put to bed; especially after I tasted this awe-inspiring bottle of Merlot from De Simone &#8211; who has made some incredible wines in his short tenure on the Niagara wine scene. With 2 years in barrel, a mix of French and American oak, of which two-thirds was new. Aromas include notes of licorice, clove, vanilla and smoked cherry; and flavours that load on the blue and black fruit backed by vanilla and spices. It has a long finish with a robust richness that&#8217;s elegant, smokey and spicy all at the same time&#8230; Great mouthfeel and acidity that&#8217;s totally on point. Beauty. I thought his 2019 was good, but this 2020 is next level.<\/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: De Simone Vineyards 2020 Merlot To get the latest videosSubscribe to the Michael Pinkus YouTube Channel &nbsp; THE WRITTEN REVIEW &#8230; Any question that 2020 was a good vintage; heck, a great vintage, should [&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-6480","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\/6480","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=6480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}