Amazing Cabernet Sauvignon that tastes like Pinot!
The Va Beach Total Wine store was featuring wines from its top 20 list this past Saturday and I tasted two wines that were outstanding! A Cabernet Sauvignon that tasted like a Pinot Noir, and a buttery, melt in your mouth, bursting with butterscotch flavor Chardonnay. I made a 3 ingredient appetizer with an item from my garden that paired beautifully with these must try wines.
I’m usually not a big fan of Cabernet Sauvignon. The tannins and bold flavor are usually too much for me, I’m more of a Pinot Noir drinker. If you like Pinot Noir you really need to try Happy Camper 2013 Pinot Noir from California. If I had been doing a blind tasting I would have sworn it was Pinot! This wine has tons of flavor and doesn’t have the thick tannin taste that attacks your tongue. It has dark fruity berry notes with just enough acidly and tannins to give it a unique complexity that leaves you wanting more. Total wine sells it for $8.99, and yes I bought several bottles. 🙂
The second wine I fell in love with was Fountain Grove 2013 Chardonnay from California. Tons and tons of flavor in this wine! If you are like me and enjoy buttery flavor & notes of butterscotch, vanilla and pear then this is a must and at $19.99 it’s a little cheaper than my other favorite Two Twisted Posts Chardonnay that sells for $33.
Both of these wines go fantastic with my Quick & Easy Eggplant Parmesan Chips. Even if you don’t like eggplant you will like this because of all the baked Parmesan cheese! Here is my quick appetizer recipe that I fixed last night:
- Wash, peal and cut eggplant into small thin pieces. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.
Place cut eggplant on paper towels and sprinkly salt on it and let it sit for 1/2 an hour. This draws the moisture out of it. Then wipe any remaining moisture from the eggplant and put on a baking sheet.
- Coat both sides of your eggplant with Parmesan Cheese and bake for 20 minutes then turn the chips over and coat your chips again with more Parmesan cheese and cook for another 20 minutes. Check and taste your chips – they are done when they are crunchy.
- Finished chips are low carb, healthy & delicious.
Enjoy!
Cheers- Carrie