Woodbridge’s Cabernet-Merlot Blend
August 4, 2008
Winery: Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi
Wine: Cabernet – Merlot 2006
Location: Woodbridge, CA
Purchased: Patrick’s Dogtown Liquor
Price: $7.80
An overnight trip to St. Louis lead us to the neighborhood liquor store for a bottle of wine. The selection was slim, just a handful of reds and whites. I believe we may have bought the most expensive bottle in the store. However, I knew the reputation of Robert Mondavi so I felt safe with the Woodbridge Cabernet-Merlot blend.
The Cabernet-Merlot blend affords the drinker vibrant aromas of dark fruit and slight hints of spice and warm vanilla. The wine’s velvety texture highlights the intense fruit-focused personality of this wine. This is a very drinkable wine, and we had no trouble finishing the bottle while watching a movie.
Woodbridge’s mission is to make delicious, affordable wines that families can share each night around the dinner table. Cesare Mondavi brought his wife and four children to Lodi, California during Prohibition to start a business shipping wine grapes to Italian-American families on the East Coast. Years after establishing his own winery in the Napa Valley, Cesare’s son Robert returned to Lodi and established Woodbridge in 1979.
