Paso Dragon Cabernet Sauvignon 2021-Another Good Vintage For A Trader Joe's Favorite

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What if you could have the experience of a high-quality, well-respected wine region in your glass, but without the usual steep price tag? Welcome to a journey through the Paso Robles region with your guide, Dave. We're tasting the Paso Dragon Cabernet 2021, a Trader Joe's gem that, priced at just $7.99, is set to shatter your preconceptions about 'cheap' wine. Full of vanilla, chocolate, blackberry, jammy raspberry flavors with a touch of spice, this wine promises a smooth and sleek profile that's sure to please. A hint of blueberry and orange zest adds just the right amount of contrast to keep things interesting.

Dave's detailed review not only explores the taste notes of this wine but also its background, providing insights into its origin and the unique characteristics of the Paso Robles region. Despite its price, the Paso Dragon Cabernet 2021 holds its own as a quality wine that pairs well with comfort food. Be prepared to redefine your ideas around affordable wines and learn that good wine doesn't have to bust your budget. However, a word of caution, its sweet fruitiness might not play well with spicy dishes. Listen in and join the wine tasting adventure that reiterates that the term 'cheap' doesn't equate to 'bad' when it comes to wine. So, pour yourself a glass, sit back, and enjoy the journey. Cheers!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome.
It's Domain, dave fromcheapwinefightercom, another
wine review podcast.
What we do here and we do itevery single time, we die for
three times a week forever is wewrite up a review of
inexpensive wine on thecheapwinefightercom website.
Cheap wine doesn't mean thatthe wine's bad.

(00:25):
When we started the website,cheap was an internet slang.
There was cheap airfare, cheaphotel, cheap big screen tea ease
and also cheap wine, so it wasa way to get noticed on the
internet.
So we're not drinking bad wine,we're just drinking wine that
we're not paying a lot of moneyfor.
And this wine falls into thatcategory because it's from

(00:48):
Trader Joe's And this is a wine.
This is the third vintage we'vedone of it And it's the Paso
Dragon Cabernet 70 on 2021.
And it's $7.99.
It's from Paso Robles that'swhere the Paso comes from, and
there's a Lake Nascimento, ithink it is that if you see it

(01:12):
from above and you have a prettygood imagination, looks kind of
like a wing dragon, and if youlook at the label, they do have
both on there.
It's a drawing and it kind ofexplains it to you, and it's in
the heart of the Paso Roblesregion, which is about halfway
between Los Angeles and SanFrancisco And it's a very

(01:37):
well-respected wine region andabout half of what they do there
is Cabernet 70 on.
The winery doesn't put theirname on it.
I'm a geek and I went on thetrademark registry search and I
found who made it.
So I'm not going to out them,because when you make a wine for

(01:59):
a customer, a lot of timesyou're making the wine to their
specifications And it might notbe a wine that you yourself, the
winery, would make but I don'tthink there's a winery out there
would lessen their qualitystandards for a customer.
You know that's not somethingthat I don't think anybody would
do.
So you're getting thecustomer's quality but you might
not be getting theirrepresentation of what their

(02:21):
wines are.
So if you look it up, that'sfine.
It's a family-owned winerythat's been around since 1983
and they have 1,400 acres underVine, so they're legit.
I mean, it's not what you wouldexpect a 799 Cabernet 70 on
from a single aviator, and Idon't know if they grew the

(02:41):
grapes or if they purchased itfrom their neighbors or how that
went.
But it's a good start.
When we don't know anythingabout the wine and we know that
That's pretty good, i'm going totake a sip and we're going to
talk about the wine itself.
This is a wine that's kind ofmore sleek, smooth and long than

(03:10):
complex and deep.
It's got full flavor, but it'sgot vanilla and chocolate.
It's got kind of crowd-pleasingflavors.
It's got the blackberry and inthe plums and the maybe jammy
raspberry and a little bit ofspice here and there and at the

(03:31):
end there's might be a slap ofblueberry along with some orange
zest, just to rough things up alittle bit, which is always
nice when you got a smooth,sleek wine, to have a little
contrast.
So I'm telling you it's not abad wine and it's 7-8-9 and
we've done the 2020 vintage andthe 2018 vintage and we've liked

(03:51):
all of them.
So that's not a bad trick to beable to produce a very
drinkable California CabernetSauvignon for two bucks under
$10.
That's not bad at all.
The label looks great.
You can put this on your tableand no one will go.

(04:12):
7-9-9 bottle.
No, the package looks good, thewine looks, taste good, looks
good too in the glass.
So it's a quality wine.
It's in the value price wine.
It's going to be more smoothand a little bit more sweet

(04:34):
fruit and it's not a sweet wineat all, but you get that nectar
sweet of the fruit in therewhich I like.
Most people like fruit andthey'd be nectar sweet, so it
works.
I'm a digger ship.
Yeah, it does a really nice joband it has been so.

(05:01):
This is the Passel DragonCabernet Sauvignon 2021.
From Trader Joe's $7.99.
It's at this point after $3.00.
Three vintages we've done outof four, and they've all been
good.
I think this is a bargain winethat you can count on.

(05:22):
I would say it's more of asipping wine, that it is a food
wine, but it still would dogreat with comfort food.
I mean burgers, pizza, burritos, tacos, you know that type of
thing.
I mean it's got that roundsmooth flavors.
I wouldn't maybe not do thingsthat are too spicy because the

(05:45):
sweetness of the fruit thosemight have sweet wine and spice
might kind of conflict a littlebit.
I don't know.
They're giving a try.
I just I haven't done that.
So the Passel Dragon CabernetSauvignon 2021 is another good
vintage.
It's another thumbs up from usand this is Domain Dave, like us

(06:05):
, really like your podcast, ifyou will out there.
Thanks for listening and I'llbe talking to everybody.
A couple days I still got to goto Costco and I've got in mind
a couple of wines, so I'll keepit cheap, stay cool, stay out of
the humidity, and I'll betalking to everybody a couple
days.
Adios, bye, bye.