This morning I tasted a very nice CalCab from a little Paso Robles winery
called Firefly. Mid to full bodied, black cherry & currant notes, medium
tannins, and decent length. As a reference point that many of you will be
familiar with, I would put this several points above Beringers KV offering.
In fact, its probably as good or better than 80% of $20 to $30 Cal CS's I've
tasted from the last 5 vintages. This could be laid down for 5 or so years
and would likely improve.

Whats the big deal you ask? I picked this up for $8.99, and that is not a
sale price. Its the best quality to price ratio calcab I've ever tasted.
Only the lower priced zin's (Ravenswood's vintners for example) come close
in QPR.

I'm going to buy 1 more bottle to make sure I didn't get a single freakishly
good bottle from the batch, and then buy a couple of cases.

- AS

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"There comes a time in every honest man's life when he feels the need to
hoist the black flag and start slicing throats."
- H.L. Menken