Apothic Red? Hmmm, I don’t think I’ve seen you here before. And I come to this little wine shop (aka Vons) quite often. Now, if only I could find the wine merchant who runs this establishment… Undoubtedly, busy with a connoisseur in another area of the store, perhaps in the exotic cereals section?
Because I like to live on the edge (and it was on sale for under ten bucks) I went ahead and tossed this in the cart. Glad I did! This thing was excellent! A little snooping around the web reveals that Robert Parker called the 2008 vintage “one of the greatest bargains I have ever tasted from California”. Wow! That’s pretty high praise! Obvious, black cherry tastes as well as vanilla. We’ll definitely be going back for another bottle! (as you can see from the picture, ours got emptied pretty fast!)
The La Crema Chardonnay is part of the problem. Here’s the funny thing, if you asked us if we prefer reds or whites we’d say “reds” without hesitation. But as I look at which wines we’re reviewing the white’s section is definitely filling out much more quickly than the reds. Awesome California Chardonnay like La Crema take a good chunk of the blame. With a price just under 
Warning this wine could cause relationship issues! Read on for details, but first a quick tangent: A couple of years ago we were out to dinner with some friends and our waitress recommended a wine to us. Very excited about the wine, the waitress came back seconds after pouring it asking how we liked it. Someone mumbled something about it and the waitress said 
Mmmm, my taste buds are watering just thinking about Gloria Ferrer champagne. It’s one of our all time favorite grocery store finds (and occasionally makes an appearance at