Best Cabernet for 17 bucks or less
Am I missing something? I think this is the tweet of which we speak. And although RP mentions 2010 and 2011…if you look at the pic that is not the vintages on the labels… ???
2004 and 2007 in the picture…classic.
Yep…so wtf? what did he drink? and all the retailers are jumping on the bandwagon, as is Wirtz the distributor.
Maybe he was drinking 100-point balls at the time.
FIFY
The 2010 of this bottling (which i thought was the aforementioned and tweeted wine, but now realise is not) was available to me for 10$ here locally and i popped one tonight. For the money, it is quite good. It is certainly the best cabernet for 10$ i have tasted in a while. It is, however, also the ONLY cabernet for 10$ i have tasted in a while. It is polished, soft and easydrinking, but balanced, and what can you really expect for a 10$ mass produced wine? As easy as it is to flame on Parker here, this is actually a solid QPR imho 
So you tried a different wine at a different price point and liked it, but Parker should still be thanked for it. Or did I miss something? 
The 2006 did surprise us here https://wineimport.discoursehosting.net/t/tns-vineyard-lunch-gang-does-blind-cabs/1660/1
In the 1980s, I found his ratings correlated very well with my own scores, even when I was tasting blindly. I found the correlation broke down in the late 80s and early 90s, which coincided with (I learned from friends in the trade) his relying more and more on mass tastings of 50+ wines at a sitting.
He never made any sense on Burgundy, but on Bordeaux, the Rhone and California, I respected him a lot then, and still respect his reviews from that period.
There was much less grade inflation in those days, I should add. Ninety points was a very positive score from him in the early years.