{"id":26,"date":"2007-09-18T15:51:58","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T23:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/18\/suave-soave\/"},"modified":"2007-09-20T18:14:31","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T02:14:31","slug":"suave-soave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/18\/suave-soave\/","title":{"rendered":"Soave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gini Soave Classico DOC 2005<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Stone fruit characteristics yet losing freshness &#8211; disappointing compared to previous tasting of the same vintage.\u00a0 Yet, all is not lost.\u00a0 I just purchased another bottle, same vintage same source, and the wine is spot on.\u00a0 There is a lovely smell of sweet peaches.\u00a0 The mouth shows the same fresh peach character. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">I had a hunch that the problem with the previous bottle, tasted earlier in the week, my be TCA.\u00a0 But I wasn&#8217;t sure as the corkiness wasn&#8217;t over.\u00a0 Upon retasting the tainted bottle after class I just couldn&#8217;t get away from the astringency on the palate, which proposed to me that there might be cork taint.\u00a0 Alas this I think has been bourne out by the purity of the new bottle.\u00a0 Hallelujah!\u00a0 100% Garganega from vineyards averaging 40 years of age; cool fermentation in ss, no malolactic and lees contact for 6 months in tank, Estate bot in Monteforte D&#8217;Alpone, brothers Sandro and Claudio Gini<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span> 12.5% $17.99 at Traverso&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ginivini.com\" target=\"_blank\">ginivini.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gini Soave Classico DOC 2005 Stone fruit characteristics yet losing freshness &#8211; disappointing compared to previous tasting of the same vintage.\u00a0 Yet, all is not lost.\u00a0 I just purchased another bottle, same vintage same source, and the wine is spot on.\u00a0 There is a lovely smell of sweet peaches.\u00a0 The mouth shows the same fresh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}