Cabernet Sauvignon vs. Merlot

Posted by Roger Baronat, March 30, 2009, 5:04 pm

Cabernet Sauvignon

Merlot

OK! We’re talking California reds here. Not France, Spain, or Italy. Just good old California red wine.

Don’t let the names Ferrari and Provenance side-track you.  Somewhere on the label, front or back, it is going to say California. Of course, you might have spotted the words,  Napa Valley, clearly printed on the label in the second photo and most folks would recognize Napa Valley as part of California, but Alexander Valley is another story. Actually, it’s another valley. Still in California, though. And as long as they’re both in California, it doesn’t matter to the problem at hand, which is - how do you decide between them?

SPECIAL NOTE: Regardless of where on this planet these two grape varieties have been harvested and turned into red, alcoholic grape juice, the Cab is going to be more mouth-puckering, more tannic, and the Mer is going to be less mouth-puckering and less tannic. Do you want the insides of your mouth ripped apart by tannins or gently caressed by subtle smoothness? The food you select should guide you, but the decision is still yours.

So the next time you go out to dinner and you want to try a red wine with whatever dead creature part you’ve chosen to ingest, all you have to remember is what you’ve just read above.

Or you could trust the waiter to decide for you.

Maybe.

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Thoughts (7)

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