Name: Cellar No. 8 Cabernet Sauvignon 2007
Alcohol content: 13.9%
Price: $10.99
Description per label: Cellar No. 8 wines honor and reflect rich winemaking tradition at Asti… blah, blah, blah a great discovery, which might become your next tradition.
Review: It is a widely known fact that I cellar my cheaper wines in my carriage house. It is lesser-known that it is there where I sit alone and lament lovers past. While sampling this red, I was fondly recalling a lurid tryst with a saucy Mexican I met while taking in a donkey show in Tijuana. But I digress and will now move on to the review and spare you the details of my tawdry relations. A California Cabernet Sauvignon in this price range is a very demanding deed to pull off. I could pontificate to great lengths about the numerous reasons the feat is as such but let’s keep it simple for the lushes and the little people.
After decanting, this young red boasts a powerful bouquet of pepper and oak with a hint of perspiring hobo. When sipped, it blossoms of cherry, chewy chocolate and cheap tobacco and manages to remain leathery on the backside. The blend is a decent entertainment wine that is reasonably priced with an ever-efficient alcohol content. In my humble, yet expert opinion, this cab should be served below 58 degrees and in voluminous glasses. On the SMS scale of 1-10 Cellar No. 8 scores a perfect 5 and makes my recommended list of particularly average wines.
Suggested pairings: Empanadas, enchiladas and a dirty sanchez.
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