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Price: $7
Maker: Three Knights Vineyards, Sonoma, California
Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon
Packaging: 750 ml bottle, natural cork
Alcohol: 13%
Our Rating: 9 out of 10

Three Knights Cabernet Sauvignon 2003 has emerged as the new best buy of our Trader Joe’s wine shopping excursion. Sure, the $4 La Boca Cabernet Sauvignon was a steal, but for two bucks more we’d pick Three Nights Cab every time. It had a striking nose with licorice, spice, and oak. Its flavor was oaky, with pepper, currant, and cherry notes. It wasn’t overly fruity, but was nicely structured and had chewy tannins in the finish. “Aging” overnight improved the wine further, bringing plumminess into the flavor and further lengthening the finish. For a $6 wine, Three Knights Cabernet Sauvignon was unusually interesting - we’d choose it over some wines costing several times as much. We don’t score too many wines as “9″, and never for a bottled wine in this price range.

Quaffability was a bit less excited about the wine, finding it “pleasant and drinkable” but with a “faint whiff of plonkishess.” Some of the commenters on that post, though, liked it quite a bit for the price. JohnG tracked this down to Bronco Wines - not a spectacular pedigree, perhaps, but that didn’t diminish the appeal of this bargain wine. Rob & Karie at In Vino Veritas scored it a mere 6.5, but commented,”It has a nice taste, and the tannins and finish are smooth.”

See what you think - try a bottle, and be sure to give it lots of air.

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