7.0

An OK, dry cabernet sauvignon that’s easy to drink and easy to cork.

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I’ve been getting pretty sick of straight gin on ice and now that I’m entering week 4 of quarantine (!!!), I wanted something complex, something I could sit with a while, something (ANYTHING) to bide the time.

So I ordered a cab from the Bottle Shop in East Passyunk. As far as wines go, I am big on Pinot Noir most of the time, except when I want something dry (Malbec, the gin of wines). Cabs tend to waffle between the extremes of light and juicy to full bodied and dry more often than I prefer, and I’m reminded of this when I take my first sip of Camelopard. The berries and vanilla are as pronounced as its alcohol content. Dry and too long in the mouth with a curious aftertaste I actually kind of like, but my boyfriend doesn’t. Important to note that I also love drinking raw black seed oil and would totally consume gasoline if it wouldn’t kill me.

But it’s fine for what it is. It’s a red wine in quarantine, one of the only cab savs I could get delivered to my house without spending a buck. I feel like it seems more elite than it really is, and it probably has its kindofcool label to thank for that. If I blind tasted it, I’d assume this was a $7-$10 bottle of gas station wine, but I paid a terribly marked up $14 for this guy. All in all, it gets the job done, and I’ve had it as an appetizer wine for three days in a row. Its lack of body makes it easy to pick up and easy to put down as well.