Several years ago I purchased a 6 bottle case of a Gallo wine that was in my opinion the wine of the Vintage. It was the 1994 Estate Bottled Cabernet of Northern Sonoma.
Last night we opened this incredible bottle with dinner and all I can say is this was the best of 1994 from Napa in my opinion. Silver Oak, Montelena, Insignia could not compare.
Gallo can make GREAT wine when they want to. This wine other than the name was GREAT!
Gallo owns some very nice properties with old vines in prime locations. The same is true of other mass market wineries like Beringer. In the last
10 years or so Gallo has started to try to make some interesting wines from these vineyards with pretty good results.Dimitri
I too have had some really nice Cabernet from Gallo - and for less $$ than that probably cost. The 1997 Barrelli Creek is really nice, and I got it on sale for ~$22US.
Tom S
Tom, the estate bottled Cab is a more premium postioned than that.
I like Barrelli and Stefano in some years. The 1997 was overoaked for my taste at release time.
Every year, I go to the Addie Bassin Barrel Sampling. Some 10 or 15 years ago, Gallo came out with their something special wines at $40 per. .Al Brounstein of Diamond Creek stated " I'll be damned if Gallo is going to sell a wine for more money than mine", or some such. He raised the price of Diamond Creek from about $20 to $45 on the spot,
Diamond Creek sold out. Since then, Botique Cabs ar sold by the bottle.
It is my understand>Several years ago I purchased a 6 bottle case of a Gallo wine that was in my
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