An update on Coppola's Rosso Classic

Months ago, I reviewed Coppola vineyards Rosso Classic. Click here to read the original review. In that review, I suggested you definitely buy this wine. This past Saturday, this recommendation was taken to a whole new level.

My friends Meg and Christian invited me over to their place to help them choose wines to serve at their wedding this summer. In total, we blindly tasted 11 wines. 4 were red. Of the red wines, 1 was terrible, 2 were good, and 1 we unanimously agreed was perfect for their nuptials. This wine (#5 I recall) was super tasty, and we could all envision it being served with just about any food- dark fishes, steak, pasta, you name it. It was the ideal choice. The brown bags came off all the bottles, and to our surprise, the big winner of the night was Coppola's Rosso Classic. At less than half the price of every other red we tried, this classic came through once again (again proving the most expensive wine isn't always the best one).

The Rosso Classic has adopted a new label, but the taste is better than ever!

Recommendation: Definitely buy it (with greater emphasis than ever before)

Comments

[Gunnar]

I do agree with you in general about "the most expensive wine isn't
always the best one" but besides branding (and real estate costs) it
also comes down to that the cheeper wine is made to be drinkable early
and many expensive wines might need at least 5 to be drinkable and
sometimes 20 to reach their peak peak with a yummy goodness and
complexity never found in a "short term" inexpensive wine.
Unfortunately I'm very fond of that smooth, rich, complex flavor and
even texture. Therefore I tend to favor wines from colder regions.
Guess there is some truth to the idea of the grape struggling to
ripen. Problem is, if you can't store wine long enough yourself it
will cost an arm and a leg in the fancy wine store and might have gone
bad already too (just had a nasty one, happens way too often). I find
it quite difficult to find a good balance between cost and pleasure.
Partly because I don't enjoy young reds so much. But, I have started
a pretty extensive test session (over 20 different grapes represented
by 62 different wines) that we are working our way through. I'll share
the results with you when we are done. We use a different scale though
and rate the quality and value separately in 5 steps. 3 steps makes it
a lot easier but I'm trying to find a few reliable wines that I can
buy in larger quantities so 5 steps makes it easier to separate
things. The plan is to always have at least a few hundred bottles
aging so that in 5 years or so I'll have ample supply of reasonable
mature and complex wines and after 10 things will be really good.
We'l se how things work out. The top wines will go to a second level
testing that we will do with our friends. After that, its time to get
one bigger wine fridge (current one holds 100 and is full) and load it
up ;)

[Glucker]

A friend suggested a site... Have you guys heard of winestilsoldout.com?

They email you deals throughout the day... often a few really good ones come through, and if you order a certain amount (3 bottles I believe?) you get free shipping.

Give it a look...

[shobhana]

this is my favorite everyday wine. i'm always recommending it to friends. i'm glad the word is spreading!