Charles Shaw Cabernet
Last night we decided to do a blind taste test of two affordable cabs to go with a seared medium rare NY strip. Yum! Without knowing which was which, here were our tasting notes:
Wine 2 - Smoother and easy to drink without an aftertaste, hints of tobacco. A little tart but not in a bad way. Preferred by three of the four tasters.
The surprise was Wine 2 was the $2.50 Charles Shaw Cabernet found at Trader Joes’s.
Neither wine was great, but we deemed the Charles Shaw the more drinkable, especially for those occasions when you have non-wine drinkers drinking wine.
Due to its price and ease to drink the Charles Shaw gets a Rating: 
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