Baron Philippe de Rothschild Cadet d'Oc Languedoc-Roussillon 2009 Cabernet, about $10.00, 87 points may be short of fulfilling the Sommelier's fantasy, but as a red table wine at a fair price this is a winner. Bought at Hannaford's supermarket and available to my neighbors for about $10.00, this wine is still very new and just a bit sharp around the edges. Bright magenta color, gentle aroma of earth and dried herbs, this wine has a medium body and carries smoothly with black-berries, but the finish makes this another unremarkable wine; as a good tasting red table wine, it is better than the average.
Bonny Doon Contra 2009 Red wine (55.1% Carignane with 15.4% Grenache and 14.3% Mourvèdre, with dollops of Petite syrah, Zinfandel, and Syrah), $11.89-$15.99, 90 points, has a violet purple color, with an aroma of sweet-spice and grape.
The medium body delivers a delicious blend of espresso-tobacco hiding in vine and black fruit. Contra has a lingering white-pepper finish to top it all off.
Bought at the NHLS for $11.89
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