I sit here basking in one of those rare discoveries for me...a wine which I love from the first sip to the last. But this one is even more rare...because it ISN'T! It's readily available.
All too often I taste a wine I can't wait to have again, only to find it is no longer available or it's inordinately expensive. This one, however, is neither. For most of us, at $16 it's not going to be an everyday bottle, but it qualifies as a regular. I'm speaking of Rodney Strong's recent vintages of Cabernet Sauvignon. Both the '06 and '07 vintages are quite good (the '06 is slightly better).
It possesses those characteristics that I consistently, yet inexplicably, find desirable in a wine. I am not a trained connoisseur, so my description is limited to my own layman's terms: it has an earthy, musty, smoky flavor reminscent of the barnyard...and which I have therefore dubbed "Marlboro Man." That's the highest compliment I can assign to any wine. Here is a readily-available, reasonably-priced, American-produced cab that brings it all together for me.
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