Fred Franzia is back (I know, again,) and has a bottle of Four Buck Chuck from Napa in tow. He recently released this four-dollar bottle under his Napa Creek label, and claims it can hold its own with other Napa wines in a blind tasting. I have to say, this really makes me want to do a blind tasting with the stuff. I get the idea that he is mostly doing this to prove his point or thumb his nose at the Napa vintners, but it will be interesting to see how this wine fares, and I wonder how it tastes in comparison with Two Buck Chuck (which, admittedly, is inconsistent, since the grapes are sourced from various places). I also wonder how it tastes compared to the fuel that the French are making with their excess wine.
I mean, don't get me wrong... I think Napa is oven overhyped and ridiculous and too much like Las Vegas in a lot of ways (I am going up there tomorrow and trying to find interesting and not ridiculous and horrible-in-that-fake-riches-way places to go taste, and it's not easy), but I think Franzia is just as silly with his fake "I am doing this for The People" schtick.
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