Continuing my quest for a good, cheap Pinot Noir I picked up a bottle of Italian pinot. Mezzacorona Pinot Noir comes from the Tretino region of Italy. It’s a simple Pinot Noir that I found rather boring. There is nothing bad about this wine other than a lack of complexity and underwhelming characteristics. The nose […]
I would like to tell you that my quest for a good, cheap pinot noir is going great. I’d like to tell you that I’ve found so many tasty yet inexpensive pinots that you have the world to choose from. But if I told you these things, I’d be a liar. I knew it would […]
A constant internal debate I have with wine choices on this site is whether to pick wines that are distributed widely enough that just about any reader can find them or just focus on those hidden gems that you should scoop up if you’re lucky enough to come across them. Ultimately I try to do […]
Get out your Che Guevara t-shirt, it’s time for a revolution. Pinot for the People is the latest slogan from Mark West Winery, a company that is focused on creating good, cheap Pinot Noir. I love this concept and I love this wine. Cool Marketing You may have noticed that I occasionally reference the marketing […]
The next bottle in my quest for a good, cheap Pinot Noir comes from down under. The Rosemount Estate “Diamond Label” Pinot Noir 2004. For some reason I wasn’t expecting much from this one, but I was pleasantly surprised. I’m not sure why I was suspect of this bottle, but I guess it was the packaging—which is a […]
Another bottle consumed as I continue searching for the best inexpensive Pinot Noir. Today it’s a bottle from Meridian Vineyards. The grapes for Meridian’s Pinot Noir come from Monterey County in the Central Coast region of California, where the cool air from Monterey Bay extends the growing season—typically about two weeks. This Pinot Noir was aged […]
My Quest for Good Cheap Pinot Noir continues with a cheapy from South Eastern Australia produced by the Little Penguin. This Penguin has a nice fruity center, but a little bit of funk at both ends. <pause for a visual> OK… should I explain that, or let your imagination do the work? I’ll explain. The […]
This month Wine Blogging Wednesday is hosted by Tyler at Dr. Vino and the theme is Go Native, which means go with indigenous varieties. I knew I wanted to do something Italian for this and I thought about it for a while. Of course I make it more difficult with my own criteria. The Criteria It […]
So… as I continue my quest for a good cheap pinot noir, I’m drinking this Pepperwood Grove Pinot Noir and I have the Doobie Brothers’ China Grove stuck in my head. I’m going to have to drink more of this and try to wash that song out of my head. And drinking more of this […]
Yep… OK. That about sums up my opinion of this wine. Give another point to the naysayers. The Beringer Founders’ Estate Pinot Noir 2004 from California is a fairly simple example of pinot noir, but nothing special. I couldn’t get much off the nose other than alchohol and a hint of strawberry. Flavorwise it has black […]
