{"id":47,"date":"2017-02-01T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/?p=47"},"modified":"2017-02-11T19:48:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T19:48:17","slug":"briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/2017\/02\/01\/briefs\/","title":{"rendered":"BRIEFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>This is why you taste. One would have expected the highly touted Cune Imperial Reserva 2010 to stand as something of a monument to a seminal vintage. Most people will presume the 2010 will be the play with a Parker 92 and comments like, \u201c&#8230;a textbook Reserva\u201d. Hey, it\u2019s a great drink, don\u2019t get us wrong. But we wondered if James Suckling, who isn&#8217;t known for Spanish wines, was a little overzealous when he gave the 2011 a &#8217;96&#8217;. \u00a0Turns out the <span style=\"color: #aba400;\"><a style=\"color: #aba400;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/product\/16532\/Cune_Rioja_Imperial_Reserva_2011.html\">2011 Cune Imperial<\/a>,<\/span> from a less touted, warmer vintage, exceeds its sibling in deliciousness, so maybe James was onto somethiing. \u00a0 Ripe, creamy, tender and fruit forward, it is a pretty irresistible beverage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>We try not to repeat ourselves often, but after opening a bottle of the <span style=\"color: #aba400;\"><a style=\"color: #aba400;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/product\/15404\/Vina_Santurnia_Rioja_Gran_Reserva_2004.html\">Vina Santurnia Rioja Gran Reserva 2004<\/a><\/span>, we are and wondering why this stuff isn\u2019t flying off the shelves. There aren\u2019t any reviews that we could point to, but this plush, velvety, spicy, plummy red has a lovely texture and tender edges. In our minds this lush, smooth, tasty Rioja with substance and without any \u2018bite\u2019 would be the profile of what a lot of folks would describe as \u2018the perfect red\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>We just tasted it, so consider this an early warning. Be on the lookout for the <span style=\"color: #aba400;\">Cristom Pinot Noir Jefferson Cuvee 2014<\/span>, one of the most complete under $30 Pinots we have tasted thus far from this spectacular Oregon vintage. The wine has a beautifully dense core of sappy cherry fruit with a precise savory underpinning of forest floor and minerality. It makes us really wonder just how good Steve Doerner\u2019s vineyard bottlings are going to be. We also feel a little sorry for a lot of Oregon vintners that are going to try to get $50-60 for their \u2018double-secret-reserve\u2019 bottling when a wine like this can be had for half that price.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #aba400;\"><a style=\"color: #aba400;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/searchwines-PL-France-Germany-Italy-VI-2015.html\">Just a quick note, as the boats are beginning to land<\/a>.<\/span> As an overall guideline to 2015, the little reds like Dolcetto and Barbera in Piedmont, Loire Reds, Beaujolais, and \u2018entry level\u2019 Burgundies and Rhones promise to be the best in years. Our job is easy when there are just a few diamonds in the rough. When virtually everything is this tasty, it\u2019s a lot harder to pick and choose, though it\u2019s also hard to make a mistake. Great time to stock up over the next year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why you taste. One would have expected the highly touted Cune Imperial Reserva 2010 to stand as something of a monument to a seminal vintage. Most people will presume the 2010 will be the play with a Parker 92 and comments like, \u201c&#8230;a textbook Reserva\u201d. Hey, it\u2019s a great drink, don\u2019t get us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/2017\/02\/01\/briefs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BRIEFS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}