This is rare: a quick ‘n’ easy review of a single wine, divorced from my rants on coffee or family reminiscences or comparisons to women.
I went down to Chronicle Wine Cellar on the corner of California and Lake. (I have a Yelp review of this place here.) I love Chronicle Wine Cellar because it’s so small and unpretentious–it’s on the bottom floor of a rundown apartment building, for God’s sake! They also offer a very good selection of wines at dirt-cheap prices.
I spent all of $22.47 on three wines: the one I am drinking now is the “Sedna” malbec from Flavio Senetiner.
It’s a malbec from the Mendoza region of Argentina, named after the furthest planet in our solar system.
I had selected a sparkling wine (for the ladies) and a rosé (because of the heat) and wanted to get a smooth-drinking, easy red to round out my trio. It was either between a shiraz from Australia or this malbec. Both were at the crazy price of $5.95.
I selected the malbec for the maybe fallacious reason that Argentina wines are generally cheaper as a whole than Australian wines–thus, I had more of a chance of finding a decent, cheap Argentinean wine than a decent, cheap Australian wine.
The verdict?
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