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i LOVE this ! Do you have a regular wine review for cheap (maybe not this cheap) wine? It would be great for those of us who have no clue what we are buying....not that you do, but at least you can see if it's poison. BTW, I'm 67 yrs old and drink fine wine when someone else buys it. I had a bottle of this sitting around and googled it to fine out who to serve it to. Now I know. Thank you!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWow! I'm glad you liked it. Maybe I'll review a few more bottles. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI just bought a bottle of this because it was 1.99 at the local grocery store. As an experiment. I mean, that's a whole cent cheaper than Two Buck Chuck was when it was still two bucks a few years ago. And it is bad.
ReplyDeleteQuail Oak kicks ass! C'mon guys .. can you really tell the difference between this wine and a $7-$10 bottle? I sure as hell can't, at least not the chardonnay. This stuff is the BOMB! Great video Richard!
ReplyDeleterichard. review more wine. please. awesome.
ReplyDeleteI'm having the Quail Oak Cabernet Sauvignon, and it's really not too bad. I don't drink wine very often, but I have tried a few cheap-ass ones like the notorious Charles Shaw and Sea Ridge. Chuck is not bad for the price, but Sea Ridge is yuck.
ReplyDeleteThe main thing I could complain about is that Quail Oak's cab is a little too sweet and just seems a bit funky. I generally like dry red wines. I did not get any notes of shit or rubbing alcohol in this one. mostly a kind of tangy cherry flavor. I got it at my local N. Cal. Safeway store for around $2.20 so I can't really complain about it.
The glass in the video looks more like an Irish Coffee mug.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous who tried Quail Oak Cab Sauvignon, I have to agree with you. The wine wasn't as bad (no shit or rubbing alcohol notes). The cab surpasses my expectation. The taste is only slightly flat at the end. What throwing me most was the color, looks like it has been diluted or something. But overall, it ranks high on cheap cab wines I've ever tasted.
ReplyDeleteMy finace brings me random uber-cheap wines from our local grocery. They don't qualify for him to purchase unless they are under $5 a bottle. :-) Hmm...am I worth it? Haha. So last night I crack open the most recently delivered treasure, a non-vintaged Quail Oak cab Honestly I was expecting the worst (the last bottle he brought was pretty awful)....but I was pleasantly surprised and I quite liked it!! I really enjoy running across the occasional cab that is very fruit forward and this one was for sure. Big cherry, a little sweet actually. Which is weird for a cab, but hey I liked it. Supple on the mouth, nice nose. The finish was a little dissappointing, but I was eating a pot roast no biggie. Definitley would not expect it to be a cheap bottle.
ReplyDeleteWe had a Chardonnay wine tasting. Quail Oak $1.99, Costco $7.99 and Rombauer $30.00+. Quail Oak came in 2nd. I bought 6 bottles at Safeway for $13.00. Awesome deal, decent wine.
ReplyDeleteI have tried all the $2-$4 range Cabernets and Quail Oak is my favorite..The only one without
ReplyDeletethe harsh rubbing alcohol taste and flavor.---Goes down very easy--fruit forward--flat at the end but goes down easy for inexpensive glass with dinner.
That was hilarious. Your facial expressions are priceless. We just bought some bottles of the Cab for cooking. They were on sale for $1.99 a bottle. Hey- you're cooking all the alcohol down anyway. Glad to know from the other comments that it has a fruity cherry flavor. I'll make it with pork chops. Mmm.
ReplyDeleteReally like sweet red and I don't like red wines. I like the sweet white wines so almost all red wines tend be gross to me. But the sweet red rocked my taste buds.
ReplyDeleteIt is worth the wait to see you drink it!! And then, bravely, drink it again! LOL - I have an unopened bottle of this ...... maybe I will take it to a party and discreetly leave it there ......
ReplyDeleteI too loved the Sweet Red..I am moving back to texas and am looking for places to buy it in san antonio if possible
ReplyDeleteA friend needed a bottle of red wine for use in cooking a delicious recipe for beef Beef Bourguignon. So, we needed a wine that was cheap and just for flavoring this tasty beef and vegetable mixture--a kind of Gucci version of beef stew.
ReplyDeleteQuail Oak was the cheapest red wine stocked at the Von's store in Rancho Mirage, CA. Not sure whether we bought the Cabernet or Merlot, but the price was low and the label looked good. Very important that wine has an appetizing label on the bottle, right?
We tried a bit of the wine before dumping the rest into the pot and.......really........the Quail Oak wasn't bad at all.
I think the video review here is a bit harsh because I didn't detect an odor of shit at all. Perhaps notes of fresh piss, but no fecal odor.
To express myself as a wine-snob reviewer might, I'd describe the wine this way:
"The nose was perhaps a bit stuffed;
The body showed a slightly flaccid character;
The bouquet drooped a bit, but no petals fell off;
The groin.......well, the groin--wines have noses and bodies so they must have groins, yes?--was slightly rank, but what do you want for less than $2.50?"
In any case, Quail Oak is at least as good as Two Buck Chuck, so be brave and give it a try because it's a bargain.
And the label is nice.
So tonight we enjoyed a bottle of the Quail Oak Cab and it was very good.
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