Tag: Red

Finding the Best $10 Cabernet Sauvignons at Total Wine & More!

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Cabernet Sauvignon Challenge Results The Cab results are in! At the bottom of this post, you'll find the final rankings and basic tasting notes on each bottle. Given the ridiculous prices that California Cabernet Sauvignon can fetch (think $12,000 bottles of Screaming Eagle), I was a little skeptical of finding nice bottles in the $10 range.  …

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Is “Pinotage” the same as “Pinot”?

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So, is "Pinotage" a "Pinot"? Well, yes and no.  Pinot (or more properly Pinot Noir) is a parent of Pinotage, but is definitely not the same thing.  Pinotage is actually the result of cross-breeding of the Pinot Noir grape and the Cinsault grape to make something completely new and different. In 1925, South African scientist …

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