1.   Because it is so full of fruit and easy to drink, the cabernet blends with any all-American meat dish such as pot roast or chicken-fried steak.

2.   Cabernet blends are all the rage in California.

3.   Cullen is also noted for a cabernet merlot blend that probably would not have gone well with the fish that evening.

4.   In this case, the wine is unmistakably a cabernet blend, with the signature cassis taste in evidence.

5.   Two Napa Valley landmarks famous for their more expensive wines, Niebaum-Coppola and Newton, both offer delicious cabernet blends called clarets.