Name: Trader Joe's (Charles Shaw Blend)Region: Napa and Sonoma, CA
Country: USA
Year: 2014
Price: $8
Winery review: Wine critics review: "I’m pleased to see that the wine isn’t too pale in the glass — cabernet is a dense red wine and should be a deep ruby color. Smelling it, however, is another story. This wine makes me audibly go “Oof!” on the nose — it’s way too fruity. And not good fruity. Like, Juicy Juice fruity. It almost has the scent of kirsch you’d expect with Beaujolais. steel myself and take a sip. My very first thought? “This isn’t terrible — but it isn’t cab.” The wine has no backbone whatsoever, none of the tannin and acid that make good cabernet such a hearty, steak-friendly quaff. This is more like a grenache: medium-bodied, with light fruit flavors leaning more toward strawberry and cedar. It might make a good base for a sangria, but it only aspires to cabernet sauvignon. Not undrinkable, I suppose… but it has no place being associated with the grape advertised on the label. Score: 5/10," according to the Penny Hoarder.
My review: Prior to reading the review above, I'd say about the same. After trying real cabernet sauvignon, bold, big red wines, this wine has the "flabby" aspect Mr. Boyer always talks about. To the scent, it's extremely fruity to the point of overwhelming. Once you taste it, it definitely doesn't have enough tartaric acid. Like the review above says, it doesn't have a backbone, making it super cheap tasting and flabby. I remember Boyer mentioning wines with no tartaric acid tasting like Kool-Aid, and I'd say the same for this one. At a college student budget, it's great; but not a wine I'd go out of my way to buy.
I tasted this wine alone with no food.
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