California Cabernet

John Now, I feel obliged to do a Costco wine tip about once a month.

Adam Yay. Costco wine tip. Everybody loves a Costco wine tip.

John The thing is that, you know, you have to pick wines that you know they have a ton of. And since they had pallets and pallets and pallets of this wine, then they were discounting it to $6.98 or $6.99, something like that.

It’s a California Cabernet. It’s not really a winery. It’s just one of these, what you’d call, one of these wines somebody put together and put a label on it. They made it themselves.

Adam Oh, it’s a blend.

John Well, it’s not a blend. It’s Cabernet Sauvignon. But it’s like a – it’s not from a winery. It’s from a packaging group.

Adam It’s basically leftovers.

John Not necessarily leftover. But you could say that. And sometimes the leftover wines are really expensive and you can’t sell them.

Adam Well, you would never steer us wrong. So, no matter what it is, it’s going to be good. I liken the price point.

John It’s actually quite good for $6.99, whatever. And it’s called Method.

Adam Meth. Meth in a bottle.

John Method. M-E-T-H-O-D. Cabernet Sauvignon, California, which means that they brought in grapes from God knows where everywhere. But it’s a mix of appellations, obviously. And it’s 2022. And they had just tons of this stuff. And I said, they had a couple of different wines in the big batches. The one was $19. And I said, you know, this audience, they like the cheap stuff. Can this be good? So, I bought a bottle to see. I was quite surprised on how good it was. It’s big. It doesn’t have mega purple in it. You could tell by the cork. So, it hasn’t been jacked up with a bunch of chemicals. It seems to be extremely well made. It has a nice finish, a nice flavor. For the price, it’s ridiculously good. It’s cheaper than those Bordeaux’s they’ve been pushing.

Adam Yeah, it’s cheaper than that Modavi stuff, too. I just bought two bottles of the Modavi at the HEB. They were restocking.

John Yeah, the Modavi stuff is good. This is the cheapest we’ve had so far as a tip.

Adam I mean, your wine tips really knock it out of the park every single time. You should just do wine tips all the time, as far as I’m concerned. But it’s kind of hard to do two a week, I guess. Is it? Because without going to more expensive stuff. Like, once you get to $25, $30 bottles.

John It’s hard to find $6.99 wine that’s really good, as opposed to finding, yeah, $40 wine that’s really good. I can do that. But nobody wants to hear that.

Adam No, no, we don’t. That’s like a $1,000 TV. Nobody wants to hear that.

John We got pushback on that TV.

Adam I love this tip. Tina’s going to Costco, I think, this week, depending on the “snowpocalypse and the ice storm of the century”. But I will definitely ask her to pick. Does it come in the individual bottles? Or can you pick up a six-pack?

John No, it’s the individual bottles. But you might want to pick up two or three.

Adam Six-pack. A six-pack. Give me a six-pack of that stuff, baby. It’s good stuff.