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Cakebread? We Don't Need No Stinking Cakebread... |
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Written by GTK31
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 17:28 |
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This past Thanksgiving my family was invited to Modesto to visit family friends and enjoy the standard Turkey Day festivities we all love so much. As I am sure it is with your family, with ours those said festivities encompass a pre-party, tons of drinking, shit talking and the subsequent giving thanks while shoveling loads of empty calories, carbs, sugars, starches and alcohol down our throats as we do our best to eat quickly so as not to miss any NFL Football action. Although this year each of the games played were about as boring as the drive to Modesto from the East Bay.
Before the fam and I headed out this year my mother and I decided we would pick up a few bottles of Cabernet Sauv for out host and in doing so we were turned on to an amazing bottle of wine. While talking us into two bottles of $60+ bottles of Cab the clerk at Wine Styles inquired as to our own tastes in wine. Now my mother is a Red drinker and unfortunately she was talked into buying some crap called Bitch - no lie that was the name. However when I told the clerk I was about to head over to the wine shop across the street and grab a bottle of Cakebread Chardonnay for myself he begged me to try a Chard (that is pronounced SHARD for those of you who drink grain alcohol from clay jugs and run around your cabin in the woods hollerin' "PA" all day) he swore he could hardly keep in stock.
The clerk prefaced his sales pitch be letting me know this wine had recently won a blind taste test at one of my favorite brunch spots (The San Franciscan in Walnut Creek) over my indulgent Cakebread. I found this hard to fathom from a Sonoma wine which was rocking a screw cap. On top of which Cakebread runs about $38 per bottle and the swill this guy was attempting to pass off on me was retailing at $15 (actually $14.99). That being said, since I had already shelled out several hundred bucks on kids Turkey Day clothes that week and just laid out $140 on wine for my host the thought of spending $15 bucks vs. $38 was about as appealing as a naked Britney Spears laying on my bed after a hard day at work. Needless to say, I jumped on it and was not disappointed.
 Redtree is now my everyday wine and once you try it I can guarantee it will be yours too. Luckily Wine Styles had Redtree on their 6 for $60 sale so my mother and I stopped in on our way out of town and picked up 12 bottles to go! Redtree was such a hit at Thanksgiving that the 6 bottles we brought were polished off in the two day trip and the two bottles of Cab were never opened. Take this single dad's advice and pick up a bottle of Redtree. And, Brit if you are reading this and still want that perfect father figure for your little boys, call me....please!!
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