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One of the best ways to purchase halfway decent wine without everyone else knowing how little you may know is to pick the right vintage.

Case in point, in the £5 to 10 range in England, California suffers. Maybe it’s because of the low dollar that we don’t get many decent California wines and it is hard to try to find one worth recommending (as this post originally planned to do.)

However, if you must buy CA, then under no circumstances buy 2005. Instead get your hands on the 2004. The weather was better and the tannins will still have some grip. A few samples of 2005 California Cabernet Sauvignon brought this point home with painful clarity. In fact, many of the bottles were downright undrinkable.

2005 California Cabernet Sauvignon: 7.9 points (sampled twice).

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