Remember Fanta grape soda? I’m not saying that this wine tastes like artificially flavored grape soda. In fact, this winery has been producing wines at a good price-quality point for years. Their Napa Valley Merlot is particularly good and can impress for under $24 a full bottle. But this Cabernet has a surprising element to its fruit flavors that pleasantly reminded me of the grape flavors in Fanta Soda. These days it is rare to read a wine review that suggests the flavor profile of a given wine might actually reflect grapes, but this one does. I also noted flavors of leather, dark chocolate and slight minerals. The wine is still young and needs time to integrate, but is showing an interesting palette today.
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