Fat Bastard Cabernet Sauvignon 2007

As a general rule, wines which are trendy and heavily marketed disappoint. This, however, is not the case with this deeply colored, well balanced red from the Minervois, in Languedoc. It has a nice blend of blacberry and vanilla, with fairly prominent tannins, and will almost surely improve with cellaring. Definitely worth buying at the sale price of $8.99.