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Tale of the tasting: cheap red blends best a 91-pt Bordeaux

9/30/2013

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Before this website took a nearly two month hiatus (sorry about that), we were in the midst of a series of Wine for the Rest of Us (WRU) blind tastings that offered further evidence--as if we needed more—that enjoyment of wine bears almost no correlation to price. And the fifth in the series of double blind tastings was no exception.

For whites, a $9 Italian pinot grigio edged out a high-scoring Washington state pinot gris (same grape) that averages $16 a bottle in good vintages. And in the blind comparison of red blends, yet another Concho Y Toro Casillero del Diablo wine that sells for less than $10 a bottle and a $12 Washington state blend crushed a well-regarded Bordeaux that scored 91 points from at least one influential wine critic.


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    Rob Garretson is an award-winning journalist, who remembers the bottle of Burgundy that converted him from a wine drinker to a wine enthusiast. He maintains a 400-bottle wine cellar in his home outside of Washington, DC, yet upwards of 350 of those bottles cost $9.99 or less.

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