Summerfield

Part of being an academic, I think, is an appreciation for the drink. Part of being a broke historian is finding that drink on the bottom shelf. So, since I've been drinking the finer choices of the bottom shelf lately, I thought I'd share the little gems I find with you. Here goes...

Summerfield
Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage 2008
$2.99 - Henry's San Diego

You have to love a bottle of wine that asks you right off the bat "How do we make such impressive wines at affordable prices?" Well, my guess would be cutting corners, but they have a much longer answer about quality, ripeness, and other wine terms I didn't understand. That's okay, I come from the John Cleese school of wine drinking. So the only question for me is, did I like it? Yeah Summerfield, I did like your wine. It was understated as far as these things go. It was also a bit dry, but that could have been my perception as the night wore on as well. I'm not a huge fan of bold wines, and this was certainly not a bold wine.

Did it get the job done? You bet it did. Conversation flowed as the wine flowed, and that's about all you can really ask in my opinion.

Overall rating... ( |3 |3 |3 - - ) three thumbs up out of five on taste, and with anything else on the bottom shelf there is one last important question to ask: How as the head the next day? Well, this wine, being a red with sulfates (an important point I think?) got a ( 0 0 - - - ) 2 ibuprofin out of five. So, really that's a 3:2 ratio. Not bad, not bad at all... pick one up for your next bottom shelf event!

- S