What’s New in the Wine World?

People have always had this notion that to get a rating of over 92 from Wine Spectator the price point had to be equivalent to the rating. Au contraire!!!

Take a look at this year’s #1 Wine Spectator pick! It’s a Cabernet Sauvignon Columbia Valley Reserve 2005 from Columbia Crest Winery. Everyone is already raving about the ’05 growing season on the west coast of the USA and the wines are showing it. Winemaker Ray Einberger, who has worked at Opus One and Chateau Lafitte Rothschild, had made a great wine here for only $27! A blended cab with 5% Merlot and 4% Cab Franc, this wine is leading the charge that Washington’s St. Michelle Wine Estates has made over the past ten years. I’m going out tonight to the new Twin Liquors Marketplace at the Hill Country Galleria to pick up a couple of bottles.