Dinner with Schroeder and Horatio

Its been a busy day of posting, but it should slow down nicely from here.  Since it was a light wine and dinner last night, we decided to switch things up this evening.  Besides, we have a sort of Sunday night tradition of a steak dinner followed by CSI:Miami.  A heavy dinner of steak and fettuccini alfredo called for a heavier wine.  So Pris selected a 2010 Argentinean Cabernet Sauvignon from Schroeder Estate.

This is a really good wine that my mom gave me that was extra from a load she got when she joined the Wall Street Journal Wine Club.  Pris has been itching to try some of these wines as part of an effort to get me to join the wine club ourselves.  While this wine isn't bold as its California cousins, it has a rich full flavor and lots of structure.  The Schroeder Estate Cab doesn't have the heavy tannin content and dryness usually associated with this varietal, but that may be due to the cold climate these grapes are grown in.  This wine, like most Cabs, was a great compliment to the steak and the cheese on CSI:Miami.  Hopefully we'll be able to find this bottle again somewhere, of course there's always the WSJ Wine Club.

Schroeder Estate 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon is from the Patagonia region of Argentina.  The vineyard has been producing wine since 1927.  This bottle runs about $18.99 and can be found at www.wsjwine.com.