2022 3 Badge Beverage Corp Pinot Noir Subterra Los Olivos District, USA, California, Wine Review

This is the inaugural vintage of this wine which tries to offer a bit of price relief while producing a quality Pinot Noir. For the most part, they succeed. It is a lighter in style Pinot. Pale ruby in color with slight blue hues, clear and bright. The nose is nice with cherries, cinnamon, spice and just a slight menthol note. Medium bodied. Light tannins. On the palate, cherries, bitter cherries and slight spice. Moderate finish. It lists 13.8%abv on the label. This is nice but better with a bit of food. It should work nicely with fried appetizers. Drink over the next five years.

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B+

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2022

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$23.00USD

Top California Pinot Noir: Which California Wine Producers Make the Best Pinot Noir?

California has actually been making outstanding wines from the Pinot Noir grape for a long time. Sure, not long in the Burgundian sense but going back at least to the middle of the last century there were good bottles of Pinot Noir being produced in California. Not many to be sure, but there were some. Starting slowly, in the 1990’s, and then exploding when the movie Sideways came out, there are now more and more offerings of good to excellent Pinot Noir being produced in California.

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Sonoma's Must Try Pinot Noirs - 2015 Best of Sonoma

For the 2015 Best of Sonoma Lists we surveyed hundreds of local vintners asking for their inside perspective of the best wines, tasting rooms, and restaurants in Sonoma. Sonoma offers a wide range of pinot noir options—but some are simply too outstanding to miss. To help develop a list of the top of the top, we asked over a hundred of the top vintners in Sonoma for their own personal choice for the top Pinot Noir under $100 in the area, and the list is to die for.

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Wines to Go Buy This Week: Sonoma Pinot Noir by La Follette, MacPhail, and Freeman

Since I wrote last week about how much I (used to) hate chardonnay , this week I am turning attention to the varietal I love: pinot noir. Friends and acquaintances frequently ask me for my favorite wine producers -and the list is long- so I am going to focus this week on my favorite Sonoma pinot noir producers. There are numerous producers of fantastic pinot in Sonoma so I'm sure I will get plenty of emails from people wondering how I could leave out so and so or who are incredulous that my recommendations exclude "less expensive" options. So let me respond in advance: The threshold for inclusion on this list is that the wine must be in regular rotation in my house and be the "go to" bottle of Sonoma Pinot Noir to serve to guests or to uncork to celebrate small victories (a concept I enthusiastically embrace..... life is too short not to celebrate good days with a fantastic bottle of wine. Who wants to die with a huge collection of great wine aging in the basement?). Must a good Sonoma pinot noir cost $40+? Of course not, though so often they do. With that said, the three wines to go buy this week are:

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2022 Crosby Roamann Pinot Noir Petaluma Gap, USA, California, Wine Review

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2022

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$32.00USD

This is a really enjoyable Pinot Noir. It is big in style and filled with fruit and deliciousness. Purple in color with some ruby hues, mostly opaque and bright. The nose has black cherries, cherries, and black raspberries along with a bit of dark chocolate and black olives. Full bodied. Light to medium tannins. Good balance. On the palate, loads of red and purple fruits with some spice and just a bit of earthiness. Long finish. This is great on its own but will be a bit non-traditional when matching with foods. It would go great with Pork Chops. Drink over the next ten to twelve

2021 Tree Fort Pinot Noir Lush & Juicy, USA, California, Santa Barbara, Wine Review

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2021

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$17.00USD

This is a Pinot Noir from Santa Barbara. Its rare to find good Pinot for under $20, but this manages to do it. Screw capped. Pale, ruby in color with some blueish hues. clear and bright. The nose is tight but opens to show some rhubarb and cranberries. Medium bodied. Light tannins. On the palate a sort red currant, slightly medicinal note (better than it sounds) along with red berries. A bit of menthol on the finish. After about an hour, its more of a cherry cough drop note. A solid Pinot that is nice on its own, but improves with food. This went well with vegetarian taco roll-u

2022 3 Badge Beverage Corp Pinot Noir Subterra Los Olivos District, USA, California, Wine Review

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