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| Drinking window: Drink between 2024 and 2027 (based on 3 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 79.3 pts. and median of 78 pts. in 7 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by ToddR911 on 12/27/2022 & rated 75 points: Barely drinkable. Poured it out. Watery and will not buy again. (1704 views) | | | Tasted by Twiney on 11/14/2022: Nice with a slight spicy after taste (1963 views) | | | Tasted by sid_loves_wine on 1/21/2022: Important caveat: I only barely "like" this in the abstract- it's not wildly enjoyable, more like acceptable for mindless drinking. But I do REALLY like the QPR here- it tastes like the average manipulated grocery store recipe red with a bit of confected character, but instead of costing $10 it ends up costing around $3 per bottle in the box. That's genuinely great QPR for what it is. It's several steps up from Charles Shaw, from what I vaguely remember.
You can definitely sense the bitter, fake oak chips that I definitely don't love, and the fruit feels about half fake, but there's a sense of more "real" fruit and oak here too, a pretty dark cherry tone with some toasty vanilla. There's a little bit of banana laffy taffy going on here sometimes, which sounds really weird and awful but I promise, it's not gross. It's also kind of nicely structured with a little bit of actual acidity, faint though it may be there are wines for three times the price that taste like water. At first the tannins (yes, some tannins!) were a little coarse and out of place, but as it sat on the counter for a week it seemed to mellow out.
I can't really rate this, especially as I have limited experience with boxed wine, but although this isn't really a good wine, it's more than acceptable for very low budgets and I probably will end up buying it again, especially for mulled wine.
EDITED TO ADD: bought another box of the same vintage and it's even better. Still confected/manipulated sure, but less bitter this time, more vanilla and vague fruit. Great QPR for the insanely low price. (3639 views) | | | Tasted by Virescit Vulnere Virtus on 1/15/2022 & rated 85 points: Medium body, juicy, short notes, tart finish (3291 views) | | | Tasted by jonahfactor on 10/13/2021: It’s wine. Meh. Pass. (3607 views) | | | Tasted by VinoHunter on 9/14/2021: Again, get what you pay for. When you a need a glass of red and don't want to open a bottle, this works perfectly. (2088 views) |
| Kirkland SignatureNote: http://www.guillaumegonnet.com/ , is the site of the winemaker listed on the back label of the 2015 Signature Gigondas. Cabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.
Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet SauvignonUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson CaliforniaNapa Valley.http://www.stagecoachvineyard.com/vineyards/our_vineyards.php
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