Years ago, before Two Buck Chuck, your Two Wine Nuts discovered their first-ever pizza wine. We define Pizza Wine as a wine (usually red) that is inexpensive, easy to drink, inoffensive, and appropriate to serve with pizza, hot dogs on the grill, or any other casual meal. The wine that inspired the category was Fat Cat Cabernet Sauvignon by Black Mountain Vineyards, sold exclusively at Trader Joe’s.A few nights ago we had pizza so we went to our go-to pizza wine. It was a 2005 Fat Cat and we were satisfied by our choice. It certainly wasn’t an amazing, oh-my-gosh wine but it served its purpose well. It was exceptionally sippable and it livened up with our pizza, especially the tomato sauce.
This Cabernet Sauvignon had everything a Cab should have: some bright red fruitiness, some oak, some tannin, some alcohol, some lingering finish. It just did not have any of these things in big enough quantities to make it a great wine. The Fat Cat is not a complex, complicated wine, but it is inoffensive and sippable and only $6 at Trader Joe’s. We recommend it as an everyday Cabernet. Online rumors suggest the Black Mountain Zinfandel is also pretty tasty, so stay tuned!
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