{"id":701,"date":"2008-09-16T16:30:33","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T00:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=701"},"modified":"2009-11-18T21:44:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T05:44:51","slug":"piemonte-specialty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/16\/piemonte-specialty\/","title":{"rendered":"Piemonte specialty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><strong>Banfi, Rosa Regali,<span> <\/span>Brachetto d&#8217;Acqui DOCG 2007 <\/strong><span>This &#8217;07 is perfectly fresh with plenty of flowers and fresh strawberries. Serve this with fresh berries after dinner to match the sweetness. The &#8217;05 tasted one year ago was sweet and with a bit of a phenolic edge, some grab as if the tannin was showing a little. I would have served it with cheese rather than a sweet dessert, especially a tangy cheese in the blue vein, so to speak. Some of the receding fruit character might have been due to an extra year of aging. Today we are tasting the &#8217;07 just one year since the harvest, rather than two. <\/span>Estate bottled in Strevi by Banfi<span> <\/span>7%<span> <\/span>$19.99<span> at <\/span>Traverso&#8217;s<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">Update:\u00a0 A little over one year later we are tasting the same vintage &#8217;07 purchased at Bottle Barn for $16.99. Let&#8217;s see how this wine is evolving. It&#8217;s actually doing quite nicely, the fruit not quite is fresh and there&#8217;s a bit of phenolic grip but I wouldn&#8217;t turn down a glass from a friend. The sweet richness is fetching, a little thick and reminiscent of strawberry jam. <a title=\"Banfi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.banfi.com\" target=\"_blank\">Banfi<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banfi, Rosa Regali, Brachetto d&#8217;Acqui DOCG 2007 This &#8217;07 is perfectly fresh with plenty of flowers and fresh strawberries. Serve this with fresh berries after dinner to match the sweetness. The &#8217;05 tasted one year ago was sweet and with a bit of a phenolic edge, some grab as if the tannin was showing a [&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":[62,305,32,39,265],"tags":[499],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brachetto","category-brachetto-dacqui","category-italy","category-piemonte","category-sparkling-sweet","tag-banfi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","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=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}