What are you drinking Right Now?!??!?!?

Cabernet Sauvignon.

Is that a drink or a French footlocker?
Yes.

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Funny thing, it's French name, but not a French wine.

The Bordeaux region is just this, a region. When California wine makers wanted to reproduce the French Bordeaux, they ran into a problem in that it is not a specific wine. However, one grape, the Sauvignon, produced a consistently good wine, both red and white.

Charles Krug planted Sauvignon grapes and coined the rather pretentious names of "Cabernet" (red) and "Blank" (white) for the wines. While the grapes are of French origin, obtained in fact from Château Mouton Rothschild, the French traditionally labeled wine by region, not grape, and tend to blend grapes. The better Bordeaux wines are in fact a blend of Sauvignon and Zinfandel grapes, but the name was never used in France prior to about 1980 - driven by the success of California wines.

Thus it was the California winery of Charles Krug that brought the most popular wine in the world about.
 
RC Cola with Wild Turkey American Honey.

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