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Speaker 1
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 .
