Cheap Wine Champ-Villa Cerrina Montepulciano D’Abruzzo 2024

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Hey
welcome.
It's
still
main
Dave
again,
cheapwineplanner.com.
Doing
what
we
always
do,
we
write
up
a
review
on
the
cheapwineplaner.com
website,
and
then
we
plug
in
our
trusty
microphone
and
we
talk
about
it.
And
today
we
have
the
$6.99
Villa
Carino
Montepulciano
Diobruzzo
2024.
It's
a
lot
of
big
words
for
$6.99.
This
is
a
wine
that
Trader
Joe's
has
had
on
their
shelves
for
10
years.
Um
it's
been
a
favorite.
Um
I
only
found
out
about
it
a
couple
days
ago
because
I
ended
up,
I
was
in
Trader
Joe's
and
talking
to
the
guy
who
runs
the
wine
section.
And
he
said,
hey,
this
is
he
told
me
this
is
$6.99,
but
it
tastes
like
a
$20
wine.
And
I
was
thinking,
what
do
a
Trader
Joe's
guy
know
about
$20
wines?
But
it
turned
out
he's
he
was
right.
And
another
thing
I
didn't
actually
know
is
Montepucciano
is
the
second
most
planted
grape
in
Italy.
I
mean,
it's
not
a
wine
that
I
think
I've
ever
had
on
the
website
before.
And
we
we've
been
doing
this
since
2008.
And
it
could
have
been
a
long
time
ago,
but
nothing
recently.
And
this
is
one
of
the
most
exported
grapes
from
Italy.
And
the
reason
why
it
is,
is
because
it
makes
a
really
tasty
red
wine,
a
little
bit,
maybe
a
little
smoky,
maybe
a
touch
of
spice,
really
good
red
fruit,
and
it
doesn't
have
to
be
expensive.
Um,
we'll
get
into
a
little
bit
of
how
they
made
it
in
a
second
here,
but
I
have
to
take
a
sip.
For
$6.99
one,
they
didn't
just
do
the
basics,
they
removed
the
stems
from
the
grapes,
uh,
put
it
in
a
brushed
it
in
the
cylinder
so
they
they
were
very
gentle
with
the
grapes.
The
seeds
and
everything
went
into
the
into
the
juice,
and
then
they
macerated
it.
And
I
left
a
link
to
what
maceration
is
rather
than
fermentation,
it
is
a
different
way
to
make
wine.
Um,
it's
an
old
way,
people
have
been
doing
it
for
a
long
time.
It
kind
of
does
the
same
thing,
but
it
gets
a
little
bit
different
results.
So
this
$6.99
red
wine
was
macerated,
and
then
they
put
it
into
big
you
see,
like
in
the
old
in
the
old
cellars,
big
um
big
oak
barrels
use
Slovakian
oak.
Um
French
oak,
which
is
like
the
the
finest
oak
in
the
world
for
wine,
and
Slovakian
oak
are
the
same,
are
the
same
oaks,
they're
they're
the
same
species.
American
oak's
a
different
species,
but
Slovakian
oak
and
French
oak
are
the
same
species,
just
one's
cheaper
than
the
other.
So,
you
know,
well,
why
would
you
you
know
buy
the
Slovakian
stuff,
especially
in
a
$6.99
wine,
and
a
a
huge
cast
like
that
doesn't
put
a
lot
of
oak
flavoring
into
your
wine,
it's
more
it's
how
it's
aged
because
an
oak
cast,
while
it
is
waterproof,
isn't
exactly
a
hundred
percent
um
oxygen
proof.
So
you
get
a
little
bit
of
transfer,
you
don't
want
too
much,
too
much
is
bad,
a
little
bit
is
just
fine.
And
so
you
have
it
here.
So
this
is
a
$699
mine
wine
that's
kind
of
made
in
a
proper
style.
They
didn't
cut
quarters,
they
made
it
like
a
uh
multiplugciano,
it's
supposed
to
be
made.
Uh
DiAmbruzzo
is
the
Ambruzzo
region,
it's
on
the
eastern
side
of
Italy,
it's
on
the
eastern
side
of
the
mountains.
Half
of
Ambruzzo
is
parks
and
uh
public
uh
public
places,
and
this
is
where
if
you're
living
in
Rome,
you
go
you
go
for
uh
winter
sports,
you
go
to
go
skiing,
you
go
up
there,
and
the
rest
of
it's
nearer
the
eastern
shore
and
in
the
foothills,
and
that's
where
you
got
your
grapes.
Take
another
sip.
It's
got
good
ripe
fruit.
There's
some
blackberry
in
there,
there's
like
them
sour
cranberry,
which
actually
sounds
terrible,
but
what
the
blackberry
is
maybe
some
jammy
raspberry
just
to
uh
just
to
give
you
a
little
hint
of
something
else.
Maybe
a
touch
of
smoke,
some
herbs.
Not
like
necessarily
hugely
complicated,
but
there's
enough
going
on
on
the
palate
to
make
this
a
really
nice
wine.
And
like
an
Italian
wine,
it's
a
food
wine.
It's
a
red
wine
of
experiment.
I
always
hate
with
when
I
see
people
and
it's
uh
have
this
with
extrudiated
chipmunk
juice,
and
like
what
the
heck
kind
of
pairing
is
that?
Um,
just
find
find
what
you
normally
eat
and
uh
uh
and
what
this
could
go
with.
I
mean,
it's
not
that
hard
to
pair
with
food.
I
mean,
it
is
if
you
go
to
a
really
fancy
restaurant,
but
um
pairings
should
be
common
sense,
and
this
is
a
wine
that
should
be
paired,
though.
This
is
a
uh
Italian
wine
that
will
sip.
Sometimes
it
has
um
like
um
Sangiovesi's
occasionally
will
have
too
much
tannins
that
don't
make
sipping
fun.
But
if
you
have
a
little
plate
of
food,
a
little
bit
of
cheese,
that
just
that
just
uh
causes
the
tannins
to
calm
down
and
it
all
makes
sense.
So
there
we
have
it.
Um
uh
$699
import
that
kind
of
really
is
good.
The
Villa
Carina
Montepulciano
di
Ambruso
2024.
This
is
a
wine
worth
drinking,
it
just
happens
to
be
$6.99.
So
there
you
go,
Adios,
keep
it
cheap.
This
is
Domain
Dave.
I
think
I
got
a
um
a
Vouvre
from
the
Lore
Valley
coming
up
in
a
couple
days.
We'll
do
that,
and
until
then,
I'm
in
there.
Um,
Adios,
keep
it
cheap.