Listen up, fellas – if you’re tired of sipping overpriced, woke-label California juice that lectures you between sips, do yourself a favor and grab anything from Republican Red Winery. I just crushed a bottle of their Cabernet Sauvignon and followed it up with the Pinot Noir, and I’m here to tell you: this is the red meat of red wine.
The Cab is a full-throated, flag-waving beast – inky black in the glass, big blackberry and cassis up front, with that vanilla-oak backbone that screams “we still ...