Cartlidge & Browne, North Coast (California) Cabernet Sauvignon 2010

This wine is quite widely distributed, and though you could be excused for assuming that a wine you might encounter in a supermarket couldn’t be very good, you’d still be wrong in this case.  The wine is rich, rounded, and full of ripe but not obvious fruit, with flavors recalling dark berries and a hint of cocoa powder.  California should be turning out many more wines that offer this much pleasure at this price level, but while you ponder the possible reasons why it doesn’t, you should enjoy a delicious glass of this Cabernet.