The Other Cab – Cabernet Franc Virtual Wine Tasting

This wine tasting will be on Tuesday July 26 at 6:00 Eastern and use Google Meet.  If you send your email address to bill@billwinetravelfood.com, I will send you an invite with the link to this wine tasting.  There is no cost to you other then you need to purchase your own wines to taste.

We will have a Winery Ambassador from the Willamette Valley Vineyards join the call and talk about their Griffin Creek Cabernet Franc and you will see below that she is also making that wine available at a discount to those participating in this wine tasting.  We are also working with Barboursville and they may also have someone join the call to discuss their Cabernet Franc Reserve. 

Below are the wines we will be talking about for our Cab Franc tasting.  Two of them are widely available and two of them are each only available from a single source. 

1. Lazy Bones Cab Franc – Trader Joes pretty much has an exclusive on this wine so you will need to get to one of the Trader Joes that carries wine to get it.  Price is usually $7.
2. Chateau Laroque Cabernet Franc –Chateau Laroque has many wines at different price points so be sure you are ordering their Cabernet Franc.  The label tells us is from the Citi de Carcassonne.  Sources:
   • Wine.com carries it for $15
   • Saratogawine.com has it for $12
   • Empirewine.com has it on sale as of this writing for $10
   • For those local to the DC area, Calvert Woodly has it in stock for $11 and no shipping charges
3. Barboursville Cabernet Franc Reserve –.  Sources:
   • Wine.com carries it but at $31 it is the most expensive source.  Wineworksonline.com has it for $24.
   • This is the only one of the four that is carried by Total Wine for $21.  Chain stores like Wegmans and Safeway that carry wines often have this one, particularly in the DC area.    Calvert Woodley also has it on the shelf for $22.50. 
   • You can get it from the Barboursville web site for $25 and they ship to most states.
4. Griffin Creek Cabernet Franc 2018.  If you contact McKenzie Wolf-Webb at mckenzie.wolfe-webb@wvv.com or 503-588-9463, ext. 357 and let her know you are part of this wine tasting, she will send you the wine at a discounted price of $46.75 plus tax and shipping instead of the standard price of $55.  At this time it is only available from WVV.  The link for it is https://www.wvv.com/product/2018-Griffin-Creek-Cabernet-Franc?pageID=3095651D-FA06-E86B-D3F3-300668D7518B&sortBy=DisplayOrder&maxRows=999&&productListName=Browse%20All&position=24 . 

If you have trouble finding these wines you can check www.wine-searcher.com and put in the wine you are looking for and they will give you a list of web sites that have it for sale.

Let me know if you have any questions on this virtual wine tasting.