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Price: $9 Winery: Tilia, Mendoza, Argentina Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon Packaging: 750 ml bottle, screw cap Alcohol: 13.9% Our Rating: 8.5 out of 10 Perhaps the strongest appeal of Tilia Cabernet Sauvignon 2009 is the ripe berry and licorice nose. On the palate, it combines cherry, red berry, and woody notes with an reasonably long finish. [...] Price: $18 Maker: Banrock Station, Kingston on Murray, South Australia, Australia Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon Packaging: 3-liter box Alcohol: 13.5% Our Rating: 8.7 out of 10 Banrock Station Cabernet Sauvignon 2009 is a very pleasant wine, one of the nicer boxed Cabs in mass distribution in the U.S. It’s a fruit-forward Cab, with blueberry and plum [...] Price: $10 Winery: Grayson Cellars, St. Helena, California Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon Packaging: 750 ml bottle, natural cork Alcohol: 13.9% Our Rating: 9.1 out of 10 It’s not often that one gets a really nice Cab for a mere ten bucks, but Grayson Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon 2009 (Lot 10) is one such wine. This Cab is [...] Price: $39 Maker: Fall Creek Vineyards, Tow, Texas Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon & Merlot blend Packaging: 750 ml bottle, natural cork Alcohol: 15.9% Our Rating: 9.3 out of 10 I pulled a bottle of Fall Creek Meritus 2006 off my shelf without knowing anything about it, other than the fact that it was prominently labeled as [...] Price: $11 Maker: Bogle Vineyards, Graton, California Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon Packaging: 750 ml bottle, natural cork Alcohol: 13.5% Our Rating: 8.8 out of 10 I’ve had good luck with Bogle’s inexpensive wines, and Bogle Cabernet Sauvignon 2008 is no exception. It leads with ripe cherries, mixed with tobacco, chocolate, and spice. The finish has rich [...] Price: $12 Maker: Chateau Diana, Healdsburg, California Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon Packaging: 750 ml bottle Alcohol: 13.7% Our Rating: 8.9 out of 10 A name like Seriously Good Wine Chalk Hill Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 sets seriously high expectations, even though it’s an inexpensive wine. Seriously, though, this Cab does a reasonable job of living up to [...] Price: $11 Maker: Kenwood Vineyards, Sonoma County, California Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon Packaging: 750 ml bottle Alcohol: 13.5% Our Rating: 8.7 out of 10 At a recent stay at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco, I was handed a half-bottle of Kenwood Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 as an amenity of their Joie de Vivre club. [...] Price: $20 Maker: Black Box Wines, Madera, California Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon Packaging: 3-liter box Alcohol: 13.5% Our Rating: 8.9 out of 10 Periodically, we revisit the boxed wine of the ubiquitous Black Box Wines. In the case of Black Box California Cabernet Sauvignon 2007, we’re very glad we did. It’s one of the nicest box [...] Price: $9 Maker: Yalumba, Angaston, Australia Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon – Merlot Blend Packaging: 2 liter box, push-button spigot Alcohol: 13.5% Our Rating: 6 out of 10 One sip of Yalumba Premium Selection Cabernet Merlot 2009 transported me back to a lovely afternoon in Venice. Unfortunately, the memory was of a cheap, almost undrinkable bulk red [...] Price: $9 Maker: Osborne Seleccion SA, Toledo, Spain Varietal: Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon Blend Packaging: 750 ml bottle, screw cap Alcohol: 13.5% Our Rating: 8.5 out of 10 In an age when wine names are often cute or funny, Tempra Tantrum 2008 Tempranillo/Cabernet scores big on the cuteness scale. The wine itself isn’t bad either. This [...] |
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