Check us out at http://www.cheapwinefinder.com
or email us at podcast@cheapwinefinder.com
0:00
Hey, welcome. It's Domain Day. Cheapwinefindercom With another wine review. We've got this one from Costco. It's $8.99. We do three right up on the CheapWineFindercom website. We write up three reviews a week and then we do a podcast of each one. And that's where we're at right now.
Speaker 1:
0:22
And this is the Gambler's Ghost north coast cabernet sauvignon 2022 8.99 at costco, and I checked the web and the prices were anywhere between 15 and 25. If you bought it online. The 25 is a bit much, but the 15, a little higher, sounds right, so you can get it half price, just about at uhco for a North Coast cabin. What is the North Coast? North Coast is Napa, sonoma, mendocino, lake County. Lake County is due north of Napa and there's a couple other small AVAs or usually boutique-y kind of places, and in this time it's Lake County and Sonoma where the grapes came from and it's a pretty good wine. Let me take a taste of it. It's the Gambler's Ghost line of wines. I checked out who made it by going to the California Wine Cola Registry. That's the thing that everybody asks all the winemakers have to register their labels with make sure it's all up and up, and it seems like there's a couple of wines in the Gambler's Ghosts, the line of wines and a different company made each one of them. So it's kind of different for me. I haven't really noticed that anyway before.
Speaker 1:
1:48
So what we have here is a Cabernet Sauvignon that they aged in for 10 months and 60% new French oak barrels. So you go oh, that's nice. Well, yeah, it is nice because a French oak barrel is going to be north of $1,000 apiece and you're going to need a bunch of them for these things. And nobody goes to the expo of doing 60% new barrels. If you use, like you see, it's only like 10% new, the rest they keep on using. If you're only going to, if you're only going to age the wine for six months here it was 10 months you can reuse these things many times in a season. You can use it six, seven times. If you put it in there for two years or something, then you're going to be pretty much done when you pour the wine out. But nobody spends that kind of money on bad grapes ever. I mean, why would you do it? I mean it doesn't make sense. So you've got new oak for 10 months, new French oak too.
Speaker 1:
2:57
French oak is more subtle. American oak tends to have more of that chocolate-vanilla thing going on, and the other one's more spicy and it gives subtler flavors. Still good, both are well American value priced wines and American oak tend to be like chocolatey and creamy type of thing. I'm going to take another sip. It tastes good. This is a good wine. I mean that's all there is to it.
Speaker 1:
3:33
It's got a couple different levels to it. It starts out with this fruit and then it gets kind of spicy and a little bit rustic on the edge, which is a really nice taste of it. I mean it's not just one thing, it's two things really, which that transition is kind of really nice for $8.99. Yeah, I mean it's a pretty good Cabernet Sauvignon. It's very sippable. I mean sometimes Cab's got tannins to the point where sipping isn't fun. American value-priced cabernet sauvignon usually have their tannins in check but tannins can give you dry mouth. But when you have it with food then it makes perfect sense because it balances out, because you need that little extra structure to cut through the food and this one sips well. But you can have it with anything. I mean you can have steak, you can have pizza, you can have tacos, it doesn't matter Anywhere a solid red wine goes and you can always tell people you can get it for $8.99. You paid the $25 for it. They'll be impressed. I'm going to take another sip. So there you go. This is a good wine. Never heard of it.
Speaker 1:
4:53
Gambler's Ghost, it's North Coast. North Coast is, like you know. You hear the Central Coast all the time, but with the North Coast they either want to say Napa or they want to say Sonoma. So when you don't have 100% of either one, you get this. Oh, and it's 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot, which would make it a Bordeaux blend. But since 80% of it's Cabernet Sauvignon, you can legally say this is a single varietal which it is Adding a little bit to.
Speaker 1:
5:27
Cabernet Sauvignon has traditionally been the way to go. I mean, in France that's all they do pretty much. It's rare to find a single one. So that's it for me. Domain Dave cheapwinefightercom. This is a costco bargain. It's the gambler's ghost. North coast cabernet sauvignon 2022. It's way under priced it's about half the price it is anywhere else, at least from a quick check of the web and it's well worth drinking. It tastes great, it's well made and you can get two for 16 bucks or, uh no, nine bucks, 18 bucks, so that's not too bad. So, adios, keep it cheap. Stay warm. It seems like it's gonna get a little warmer around here in chicago and I'll let the sax player play us out a little bit, and, uh, I'll be talking to everybody in a couple days. Adios, bye, bye, keep it cheap.
