Cabernet Franc in Chinon: Hard to find but easy to drink

Cabernet Franc in Chinon: Hard to find but easy to drink

By Jeff Thoreson The large wine store where I like to go to wander the aisles like the DIY-ers wander around the big-box home improvement centers offers just two bottles of wine from Chinon, France. Really? To me, that’s like Lowes offering just two colors of paint....

$14.95 – Vineland Estate Cabernet Franc 2017

In many ways, this is winemaker Brian Schmidt’s defining wine each vintage. I have written many times that it is the measure of the vintage at Vineland Estates, the one wine you can judge a portfolio by, or at least get a feel for all the wines that come before and...