Dinner at Cabo Fish Taco



To celebrate Valentine's Day and not break the bank, my boyfriend and I went to Cabo Fish Taco for dinner, one of our favorite places. To start off we had chips and queso with their homemade salsa. We looked over the drinks menu and landed on the Seven Falls Cabernet Sauvignon. This was a lot drier than I expected. The appetizer of chips and salsa could have been a factor. The wine itself was full-bodied with deep flavors of blackberry, cherry, plum, a slight oak flavor, and something else I had not tasted before. I have tried to figure out what it was but I cannot. Unfortunately, I did not get a picture of the glass of wine. However, I asked the waiter to bring me a glass of sangria and I mixed the two, I do have a picture of that. I order the chicken and shrimp burrito with the avocado pasta salad and tried the cabernet with my meal. The flavors meshed but not in the way I was expecting. The spiciness of the chicken seemed to make the cabernet drier but the pasta salad seemed to tone it back a little. The flavors seemed to mesh better than before once I mixed the sangria and the cabernet. For the first time trying Cabernet Sauvignon by itself, it was not half bad. It is definitely not something I would buy on my own as I like fruiter and sweeter wines but if I were out to dinner, I would buy it. The glass of water is not mine. It was just on the table. 



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