{"id":3536,"date":"2011-09-25T08:55:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T08:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=3536"},"modified":"2011-09-25T09:09:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T09:09:10","slug":"a-remarkable-freisa-and-a-delicious-montepulciano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/italy\/a-remarkable-freisa-and-a-delicious-montepulciano","title":{"rendered":"A remarkable Freisa and a delicious Montepulciano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMGP2530.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3540\" title=\"mascarellofreisa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMGP2530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMGP2530.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMGP2530-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMGP2530-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMGP2530-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two excellent wines at dinner last night, here in Oslo. The first, a Freisa from Langhe made like a Barolo; the second, a warmer wine, much richer and obvious, but still with good definition and edges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Giuseppe Mascarello Langhe Freisa &#8216;Toetto&#8217; 2004<br \/>\n<\/strong>This is Freisa made almost in the Barolo way (15 months in slavonian oak), and it&#8217;s just so delicious. Lovely expressive bright nose of bitter cherries and plums. The palate has fresh, edgy fruit and high acidity, with sweet cherries, tar and spice, as well as a savoury earthiness hiding in the background. Lovely plummy bitterness here. Brilliant. 93\/100<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMGP2533.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3541\" title=\"cveticmontepulciano\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMGP2533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMGP2533.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMGP2533-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMGP2533-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMGP2533-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Marina Cvetic Montepulciano d&#8217;Abruzzo 2005<br \/>\n<\/strong>Rich, ripe, sweet, dense and bold with notes of spice, plum and blackberry. Very rich and sweetly fruited, but also quite dry, spicy and grippy. A really attractive wine. 91\/100<\/p>\n<p><strong>Find these wines with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/index.lml?referring_site=WAN\" target=\"_blank\">wine-searcher.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two excellent wines at dinner last night, here in Oslo. The first, a Freisa from Langhe made like a Barolo; the second, a warmer wine, much richer and obvious, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[370,396],"class_list":["post-3536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy","tag-italy","tag-piedmont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3536"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3545,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions\/3545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}