The Desert Wine Guy - 2010 Picket Fence Cabernet Sauvignon

Picket Fence 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon

   With Spring finally under way you may ask yourself why I am still mostly drinking Red wines. Well the short answer is actually two part. The first part is that I tend to like Red wines a lot and the second part of my answer is that I don't go for the usual Spring & Summer mean Whites and Fall & Winter mean Reds, I simply drink what sounds good at that time. There are times like the other day when I was out in the Vineyard all day and a Red wine did not sound good to me so I went with a Sauvignon Blanc. Maybe it was because I was in the Sauvignon Blanc (Mirror Image) Vineyard, I don't know. What ever the reason was I stuck with a Red this time and recently had the opportunity to do a tasting on the 2010 Picket Fence Cabernet Sauvignon and that is the wine I am also about to write this  review on.
   Picket Fence is owned by the bronco Wine Company and marketed by 585 Wine Partners (http://www.winebusiness.com/news/?go=getArticle&dataId=48597) which ends up also being a division of Bronco Wines. Picket Fence produces between 5,000 & 10,000 cases of wine a year with the majority being Chardonnay. Picket Fence does not own any vineyards, they make their wine from sourced grapes.
   So Desert Wine Guy, exactly what do you think of the 2010 Picket Fence Sauvignon Blanc? Good question guys, here is my thoughts on this wine. Let's jump to how this wine tastes in the mouth to start this off. After sipping a small amount of this wine and holding it for a few seconds in my mouth I tasted Black Current, Blackberry, a strong sense / taste of French Oak and Cassis (the Cassis seemed to slip in out out of being detectable). The wine also had a nice leathery feel to it as well. So far so good,. The wine seems like a fairly decent wine and one that I am going to enjoy. This wine started off being a wine on the lighter to slightly medium depth side of wine. The wine also tends to be Blackberry / Cherry dominate. If the wine would have stopped here it would have ended with a sort of decent rating of  85 points at the maximum. The wine however did not stop here or continue to open up unfortunately for it. Something in the wine did change though and that something is what I want to talk about. What changed? Something very disappointing & strange happened to this wine. This wine actually went downhill FAST after being opened for an hour or so. I've never experienced anything like it before and I hope I never do again. . All the notes except for the Blackberry seemed to slip away as the wine opened up. The Cassis, gone. The French Oak, gone. How or why this happened is beyond me but happen it did. the wine became sort of harsh in it's taste. What started off as a sort of decent wine ended up a disaster of a wine. The wine couldn't maintain what it had which truly wasn't much in the first place but was at least drinkable. There were also no tannins at all and I see no hope in the wine developing in the future if cellard  into anything even semi drinkable.
   So what is the final verdict on this wine? The final verdict is that for $18 dollars I could find many wines that not only are less expensive but a heck of a lot better as well. What is the final rating I give this wine? That is another good question and here is my answer. I rate this wine at 80 points. When you take into account the price and how the wine simply fell apart shortly after opening it I think I am being generous here in that rating. Bronco Wines does put out very good wines but this one unfortunately is not one of them.


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