Handpicked Selections Day 4: Cabernet Without the Country Club Attitude
This beauty comes to us from the Languedoc in southern France. This has become a region that consistently overdelivers for people who enjoy drinking wine more than discussing it for three hours. Imported by Handpicked Selections, this Cabernet is exactly the kind of bottle we love discovering: honest, generous, and dangerously easy to pour “just one more” glass of.
And before you think this is some rustic little sleeper wine nobody’s heard of, Jeb Dunnuck slapped a very respectable 90-point score on it. Which means you can confidently bring it to dinner and casually mention the score while pretending ratings don’t matter to you.
In the glass, it delivers all the Cabernet goodness you actually want: dark berries, cassis, a little spice, soft tannins, and enough richness to stand up to burgers, steaks, weeknight pasta, or that cheese plate you bought because you were “having people over” and then absolutely demolished yourself.
The Languedoc has become one of the best places on earth for value-driven French wine, mostly because the wines haven’t yet realized they’re supposed to cost twice as much. This bottle is proof.
