Cabernet Sauvignon is definitely the king of wines and the wine of kings. Unfortunately, most of the really good cabs require a lot of money and a lot of aging. In the late 1990s, the noted scientist Dr. Carole Meredith from the University of California at Davis concluded from DNA testing that Cabernet Sauvignon is the result of a cross (most likely accidental) between Cabernet Franc, a red wine, and Sauvignon Blanc, a white wine. It’s a relatively recent cross, too, most likely occurring within the last 400 years. It appears that the earliest known cultivation of Cabernet Sauvignon occurred in the
