Wine snobs stand aside for a minute as we’re about to hit up our first review of a “boxed wine.” The Vendange California Cabernet Sauvignon cost us about $3.99 and is in a small Tetra Pak form factor and holds about three glasses of wine (500ml). Still reading? Okay, so I’ve got your attention. First, let’s just dispel the ideas that a boxed wine has to be utter garbage, I’ve had plenty of really horrid glass bottled wines and Vendange [...]
Today we went off to the Boston Wine Expo, had a hugely great time. The wife and I bought the mother-in-law and got her to explore a lot of new grape varietals from regions all over the world. We started the event with a great keynote by Gary Vaynerchuk at WineLibrary.com. This was a double-blind tasting with eight wines from regions around the world, we each had eight glasses in front of us to taste with Gary, pick out flavors [...]
Today I picked up a bottle of 337 Cabernet Sauvignon based on something a casual wine drinker may have picked it up for, a cool bottle. The bottle is a 2005 Cabernet and the second of only two released wines from 337 so I felt special buying a newer vineyard. The Clay Station vineyard is in Lodi, Californa, or as their website describes it, “337 Cabernet Sauvignon is grown in the rich and rocky soil of the Clay Station Vineyard [...]
Cabernet Sauvignon is both a red grape and a type of produced wine. There is a clear distinction between the two because a cabernet sauvignon grape is also used in French wines like a Bordeaux wine. A wine created in the Bordeaux region of France will be a Bordeaux wine and they may use a Cabernet Sauvignon grape or a Merlot grape or other type of grape, so don’t confuse a Cabernet with a Bordeaux, both are from different countries. [...]
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