Gobs of smokey stewed dried fruit cocktail in green wet wood, a burley dank slammed up against fresh peat and gym shorts. Gorgeous cinnamon pull-apart pie-cherry rolled in red dirt and price-tagged with peach-fuzz tannin ka-chink ka-chink ka-chink ka-chink …

I found 3 of these in my cellar which means I prob have 6 somewhere and I was like rut-roh I better check in on these but I’m not even mad. If ya had $25 to spend in a supermarket for an old-school Napa cab, where would you go? BV Ruth? Clos du Val? Charles Krug? Franciscan? Who am I forgetting?

2009 BEAULIEU VINEYARDS Cabernet Sauvignon Rutherford Napa Valley 14.5

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