A Tannat tasting. A Grape From The Madiran - Episode #582

Brad: Welcome back to the Lab at DadLab.com, I’m Daddy Brad. Clay: And I’m Daddy Clay. Brad: With the holidays on the way, it’s time to entertain our families, put the economy in the tank, every body is looking to save a buck or two. Clay: That’s why here in the lab we’re having a taste tank of box wine. Good news. Okay, daddy Brad when I, when I ask you about box wines, what’s the first thing that pops into your mind? Brad: One step away from living at the homeless mission. Clay: Inexpensive. Cheap is the way I'm saying it, yes. Cheap, but not necessarily cheap, although box wines are usually inexpensive and a pretty good deal, I’ve got a visual for you. Look at these. Brad: Lay it on, lay it on. Clay: So, the typical box of wine is a 30-liter box, which is equal to four 750 ml bottles of wine, or two of these big jumbo liter and a half, 3 liter box, all the same. So there’s a lot of wine here. We’re tasting five different wines, okay, and the price on these babies ranges from 16.99 and 19.99, which works out to between 4 dollars and 25 cents, and 5 dollars per 750 ml bottle. First wine up, 2007 chardonnay Monterey County from black box. Brad: Oh, black box. Clay: So, a little taste. First thing to do, do or don’t travel? Brad: Do, absolutely. Clay: During the hot thanksgiving travel? Brad: I don’t want all those people in my house, messing the house up. Clay: You’re crazy, you’re absolutely saying the one thing you don’t want to do during the holidays is travel, established a tradition of having things in your house and making come to you, you got the kids. Brad: Do that in Christmas man. Clay: Okay, the second wine we’re up to. Are you ready? This is a 2007 chardonnay, California, from wine cube, oh, I should mention, okay, the black box chardonnay, Cosco, I got that at Cosco, 16.99 that’s 4 dollars 25 cents a bottle. Brad: I love cosco. Clay: Second one, 2007 chardonnay from wine cube, you can get this at Target for 17.99. Brad: Wow, okay, here we go. Clay: That’s the second one in your flight. Again most of these wine you can have one or two fruit characteristics, you’re not going to taste any of that oak, almost non of these wines have been fermented in wood so you’re not going to get that oaky flavor. Brad: Plastic? Clay: It’s going to be fruity, it’s going to be a little bit dry, sometimes a little chemically. Brad: A little A Jackson over here. Clay: Okay, do or don’t? Brad: Yeah. Clay: Fry the turkey. Brad: Yeah, do man, do, moist, crispy on the outside, and moist in the inside, you can’t screw it up. Clay: If you like your children crispy on the outside and moist in the inside, definitely fry the turkey. Okay, third box of wine, this is our last chardonnay, this is 19.99 a box, angel juice chardonnay, it’s a, from the central coast, it’s not from southern California, it’s going to be equal to about 5 dollars a box, and that’s your third wine in the flag. Brad: Let me do 4 dollars a bottle, 5 dollars a bottle, 5 dollars a bottle. Clay: Four and a quarter, 4.50, 5. Brad: Oh, I see that. Clay: Yeah. Brad: Okay, here we go. Clay: See to me that one doesn’t have as much fruit pop. Brad: Yeah. Clay: It’s got a little bit of a vegetable taste on the smell on the nose. Brad: Vegetable? Like carrot wine? Clay: It’s still fine, you know what your aunt Sally is not going to complain as she is on her fourth glass of this, and she is complimenting you on your wife’s taste and pointing to your sister. Brad: Among other things. Clay: Yeah, it’s not going to matter to her. Okay, so we tasted 3 chardonnays so far, which one’s you like the best? Brad: Probably the black box. Clay: Okay, the black box is very good, my pick is probably this wine cube that comes from target. This from Cosco, roughly the same cost, 4.25, 4.50, nobody is going to complain. Brad: I love Cosco. Clay: Okay, moving on to the red wines, we got a cab Shiraz blend, again from wine cube, about 17.99 at your local Target store. This guy has little brail character, it’s got a little bite, you know, it’s not a, not a fine wine. Brad: Little sardines. Clay: Do or don’t watch the game? Brad: Oh yeah, yeah, watch the game, watch the game. Clay: But don’t you risk your wife’s ire if you sit there taking a nap during thanksgiving watching the game? Brad: It’s the game. It’s what is all about. Clay: You know I say go to the game. If you go to the game, it’s like a family activity, and your wife will support you, take your father-in-law and you make him pay, and you go to the game as oppose to just watching it. Brad: If you can do that with your father-in-law, you're good to go. Clay: Yeah. Brad: But leave the kids home with… Clay: Coz you know, the Horns are playing on Thanksgiving Day, so guess where I’ll be. Okay, on our next wine. This is a Fisheye Shiraz, this is going to be 19.99 in a box, about 5 dollars per bottle. Brad: Okay. Yeah, yeah. Clay: Much more in that one. Brad: Yeah and that’s better. That’s better. You know, this one is called Fisheye, and this one tastes like fish. Clay: I don’t think it tasted like fish. I’m not sure. Some people say, I don’t want to have red wine with this or that, I want to have seafood or turkey, you know what, if you like red wine, you’ll like it with turkey, and so, this goes fine with turkey. If you want to get a pin on the war, you want to get something fancy, fine, but if you’re looking for wine in a box, you’ll going to end up with some Cabernet, Merlo, or Shiraz. Shiraz is probably the way to go. This is a good one from Fisheye so here’s our right there and that’s 20 bucks, That maybe is may favorite. I don’t know which one do you like out of the two reds? Brad: Oh, definitely this one, Fish eye. Clay: Definitely like the Fisheye. The angel juice chardonnay was probably the least favorite, even though it’s the most expensive. I like the chardonnay from wine cube, Brad like the black box. All these babies are cheap, great way to share wine with your family during the holiday seasons and not break the bank. Brad: If you got some wines to share with us or some tips on how to have great holiday season with your family and save some money, go to Dadlabs.com, join the community and let us know. Clay: Yeah, so we’ll see you there on Dadlabs.com. So daddy Brad, do or don’t, drink a whole butler of wine and start working on your family issues.