French isn’t always a synonym for “overpriced”
Posted by lawgeek on 17 Feb 2007 at 10:20 pm | Tagged as: Food and Wine
We uncorked a bottle of the Rothschild Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 (Vin de Pays D’Oc) to go with our pizza this evening. It’s quite pleasant and only $10.15–sort of a cocktail/party/pizza wine. And I’ve always liked their label–a contemporary abstract thing that J. says looks like a bit like a Chinese brush painting of plum flower plants.
We’ve had a number of Mystery Cases that have been French, and a number of quite pleasant bottles as a result. Most were in the $15 range, I think… should pay more attention… also we have a few left of a nice Crozes-Hermitage that wasn’t too $$ either.
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