{"id":840,"date":"2008-09-30T19:10:32","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T03:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=840"},"modified":"2008-09-30T19:10:32","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T03:10:32","slug":"the-other-montepulciano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/30\/the-other-montepulciano\/","title":{"rendered":"The other Montepulciano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this flight we see two tiers of wine from Nicodemi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicodemi, Montepulciano d&#8217;Abruzzo DOC 2006 <\/strong>There&#8217;s tar and black fruits mingled with a bit of cheese rind and earth in a very tannic profile. This wine features a pronounced sense of the horse saddle &#8211; yet it works in a rustic way. Estate bottled in Notaresco 13% $13.69 at Bottle Barn<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><strong>Nicodemi,<span> <\/span>Montepluciano d&#8217;Abruzzo, Colline Teramane DOCG, Not\u00c3\u00a0ri 2005 <\/strong>My notes from the previous vintage state: <\/span>quite tannic with fresh fruit in the background &#8220;\u201c awkward like Petite Sirah can be<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"> but for a fan of PS, this is great. The 2005 in the glass tonight is smoky with some notes of stewed fruit and a hint of onions marinated in vinegar. The tannin profile is as big as the previous wines, in an astringent way, with a healthy dose of the horse. This is rustic and not for everyone yet with some blood sausage it would work. Estate bottled in Notaresco 13.5% $22.49 at Bottle Barn <a title=\"Nicodemi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.viti.coltori.di.natura\" target=\"_blank\">Nicodemi<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this flight we see two tiers of wine from Nicodemi. Nicodemi, Montepulciano d&#8217;Abruzzo DOC 2006 There&#8217;s tar and black fruits mingled with a bit of cheese rind and earth in a very tannic profile. This wine features a pronounced sense of the horse saddle &#8211; yet it works in a rustic way. Estate bottled [&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":[327,32,212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abruzzo","category-italy","category-montepulciano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","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=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}