Two Tone Farms Cabernet 2002
Well I guess there is no water rationing this year. It has pretty much rained most of the winter so far. Towns have flooded, hills have collapsed, and cars have been stranded. And that's here. Not New Orleans!
Two new cheap wine finds this week.
From the Napa Valley, Two Tone Farm 2002 Cabernet Sauvinon. $9.95 at Mollie Stones Market in Sausalito. There web site is just a little sparse. Ok empty. Just a blank page. I hope they weren't charged too much for that web design. I've heard of "white space", but.... There are however a number of Google finds regarding the wine, like this one from ReviewJournal.com:
"In the glass, this Two Tone Farm Cabernet Sauvignon is a deeply opaque purplish-red color with a dense blackish core going out into a saturated violet-red rim definition with medium-high viscosity.
On the nose, this wine comes right at you, showing intensely concentrated black currant fruit, crme de cassis, eucalyptus leaves, boysenberry sorbet, vanilla, crme brulee, new oak references, violet pastilles and phenolics. It is like a normal cabernet sauvignon on steroids."
I couldn't agree more. This was surprisingly Cab like for $10. According to law, since the lable says Napa it must be at least 85% from Napa and 75% Cab. I think it may be. The article quoted above from the Review Journal says the wine is 91% Cab and the balance Merlot. It's not Screaming Eagle or Harlan, but it's $10!
A nice review from the wine blog Vinography.com provides a nice synopsis of the company and his experience with the 2001. Check it out.
The second bottle is BoonaRoo 2001 Shiraz-Cabernet blend ($5.99 Mollie Stones Market) from (where else) Australia. I love the names of wines coming from down under! This is 53% Shiraz (Syrah), and 47% Cabernet.
This wine is smooth fruity, semi-sweet, with very light tannins nicely integrated from 5 years of patient waiting. Considering that producers are releasing the 2004 vintage these days, I suspect that this wine is left over from some lost corner of the distributer's warehouse and sold to the store at a substantial discount. Better for me! I bought one bottled, which I opened over dinner. I went back after dinner and bought a case. Woh!
While there is not much to be found about this wine on Google there are some notes here and there. Like this one at winespecialist.com. It appears to be an import by the large wine company Stimson Lane Vineyards and Estates in Washington State, which a search leads to Ste. Michelle Wine Estates. I guess they are related.
In any event a nice wine that was originally priced at about 10 bucks. If you can find some, buy it. You're not getting mine!
Here's tipping a glass at you!
Two new cheap wine finds this week.
From the Napa Valley, Two Tone Farm 2002 Cabernet Sauvinon. $9.95 at Mollie Stones Market in Sausalito. There web site is just a little sparse. Ok empty. Just a blank page. I hope they weren't charged too much for that web design. I've heard of "white space", but.... There are however a number of Google finds regarding the wine, like this one from ReviewJournal.com:"In the glass, this Two Tone Farm Cabernet Sauvignon is a deeply opaque purplish-red color with a dense blackish core going out into a saturated violet-red rim definition with medium-high viscosity.
On the nose, this wine comes right at you, showing intensely concentrated black currant fruit, crme de cassis, eucalyptus leaves, boysenberry sorbet, vanilla, crme brulee, new oak references, violet pastilles and phenolics. It is like a normal cabernet sauvignon on steroids."
I couldn't agree more. This was surprisingly Cab like for $10. According to law, since the lable says Napa it must be at least 85% from Napa and 75% Cab. I think it may be. The article quoted above from the Review Journal says the wine is 91% Cab and the balance Merlot. It's not Screaming Eagle or Harlan, but it's $10!
A nice review from the wine blog Vinography.com provides a nice synopsis of the company and his experience with the 2001. Check it out.
The second bottle is BoonaRoo 2001 Shiraz-Cabernet blend ($5.99 Mollie Stones Market) from (where else) Australia. I love the names of wines coming from down under! This is 53% Shiraz (Syrah), and 47% Cabernet. This wine is smooth fruity, semi-sweet, with very light tannins nicely integrated from 5 years of patient waiting. Considering that producers are releasing the 2004 vintage these days, I suspect that this wine is left over from some lost corner of the distributer's warehouse and sold to the store at a substantial discount. Better for me! I bought one bottled, which I opened over dinner. I went back after dinner and bought a case. Woh!
While there is not much to be found about this wine on Google there are some notes here and there. Like this one at winespecialist.com. It appears to be an import by the large wine company Stimson Lane Vineyards and Estates in Washington State, which a search leads to Ste. Michelle Wine Estates. I guess they are related.
In any event a nice wine that was originally priced at about 10 bucks. If you can find some, buy it. You're not getting mine!
Here's tipping a glass at you!
posted by Don Strickler at 8:20 AM
4 Comments:
I have just had a bottle again. Funnily enough, I got mine for only $7.20 on the East Coast. (It was a case price!)
For the price, I loved this wine. As you say, it's not Screaming Eagle, but I cannot think of better value for money right now.
Moyey
We really liked the Boonaroo Shiraz Cabernet too. Very nice for an inexpensive wine.
Just bought a 2002 Boonaroo Shiraz-Cabernet from the local grocery for $2.99 (their last bottle). Only a few days ago we had an Oregon Shiraz that cost almost 10 times that. Can't say the Boonaroo lived up to that experience--but it's pretty nice for a wine that costs less than $10. I'll be on the lookout for anyone else cleaning out the 2001 or 2002 stock.
If anyone in Central Florida would like to try this wine, Albertsons has it for $3.99 regular price, 3 for $10.00 when it goes on sale.
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