Wine Tasting Blog: Josh 2011

The name of my most current wine that was tasted was simply "Josh" and it is a Cabernet Sauvignon. It was made in St. Helena, California which is located on the northern coast. The vintage is 2011 and originally cost $35 but was on sale at Kroger for $14.99 and came recommended by a man working there. I figured that since I am an amateur when it comes to wine tastings that I would heed is recommendation and try it.

Here is a quick review about the wine from Wine Express.

How could I not like a wine named after our Wine Director?!? Actually it's very possible as we taste hundreds of wines trying to find the best ones to bring to our customers. But this one stands out even beyond the name! Lots of supple black fruit with hints of vanilla and spice from oak treatment. For under $15 a true value Cab that comes out of the bottle ready to drink.


My personal review of this wine is relatively parallel with that shown above. As I mentioned earlier, I am an amateur when it comes to tasting wines so I find it rather difficult to locate all of the different tastes in the wine that professionals do. But when I actually sat down and payed attention I was certainly able to sense the dark fruit tastes that this wine possesses. That was really the only taste that stood out to me immediately. As recommended in Geography of Wines I eventually let the wine sit overnight just to see the differences in taste. My second tasting of this wine the next day was better in my opinion. The alcohol did not seem to come off as strong and the fruits really exposed themselves and I enjoyed the tastes much more overall. As both the above review and the bottle label describes, this wine is supposed to have a few more tastes from the oak treatment that it undergoes but my amateur pallet didn't do a very good job at detecting them. I may have been mistaken with the food pairing choices that I tried, but this was hard to avoid since I tried it on super bowl Sunday and only had chips, crackers, and foods of that nature to try, but they definitely did not pair poorly with each other. Overall I would recommend this wine to a friend. I imagine that my further investigations in to the art of wine tasting will prove that there are many other bottles of wine in this price range that are just as good, but as of right now I'll say that this is a good wine for an equally good price.