This smells almost too Californian—jammy and sweet, vulgar… Vanilla, bread

This smells almost too Californian—jammy and sweet, vulgar… Vanilla, bread-pudding and crême de cassis galore, pillowy and promising only low acid and alcoholic heat. This, the wine delivers. Chunky, puppyishly friendly. A one-dimensional, unstructured fruitbomb. Drinkable, but not particularly stimulating ti the senses or the intellect. Luckily, this retails for a mere $10. In that respect, it’s much better than a hundred other Spanish , Australian, South and North American blobs that sell for two or ten times as much, so I guess it could be seen as a “good value.” Go figure...