There are some last threads on this you ca. read through if you want
In my earlier days of exploring wine, I did like the Rubaiyat by Cakebread, which was a mid priced blend of mostly pinot with something like 10-20% Syrah.
I think the blend varied from year to year and sometimes bits of other varieties are thrown in.
I recall liking it as an easy drinking, spicy red that was good pairing for the grill. But I haven’t had it in a very long time.
I’ve had some different vintages of Cakebread’s “Rubaiyat” over the years, which is a syrah-pinot blend, some years including zinfandel, merlot and/or other varieties in the blend, and it’s quite a good and interesting wine.
Domaine Alfred (now Chamisal winery) used to make an inexpensive pinot-syrah blend called the DA Red, that was a solid quaffer for $10-15.
My guesses as to why you don’t see it more often would be (a) the cost, as several people noted above, and (b) that it’s just not trad…
I saw that Cakebread just released their new vintage (2011?) of the Rubaiyat, a blend of pinot and syrah (I think usually something like 2/1 ratio), sometimes with other varieties included in the blend varying from vintage to vintage. I’ve liked this wine in the past, and the QPR at around $30 is good, if not exceptional. I even had a magnum once that was maybe 5 years after release, and it had aged pretty well for that period of time.
Domaine Alfred (now called Chamisal Estate) used to sell …
I don’t say that to imply it’s not a good topic for a new thread, but just adding those for any information they have.
[for some reason, the links seem to be to my post in those threads, but scroll up and read the whole thread, I wasn’t meaning to highlight my posts in particular.]
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