This week on October 10 the folks at Wines Til Sold Out are having another Cheapskate Wednesday. Be sure to check it out at winestilsoldout.com. They did this a couple months ago and I picked up a few bottles of Casa Catelli Negroamaro that I wrote up last month. I was really pleased with the wine and I had […]
In a recent issue of Wine Spectator they were reviewing Californian pinot noir and listed Castle Rock Sonoma County 2006 as one of their best values. Given that it is only $15, I thought I would be remiss if I didn’t try it as a part of my quest for good, cheap pinot noir. Castle Rock produced pinot noir […]
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 […]
Just a few days ago I was commenting on how it amazes me that with shipping costs and all we are able to get inexpensive wines all the way from Australia. Well that may not be the case for long, but not because of shipping costs, drought is the culprit. Australia has been suffering its worst drought […]
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 […]
