Wine: Coastal Estates Pinot Noir, 2006
So what can you say about a $5 bottle of pinot noir? How about, "Hey, that's actually not bad." This isn't a wine to write home about, with little complexity to it. There are some undertones of black cherry or blackberry, which I expect in a pinot noir, but beyond that it's just a flat table wine. The fact that it's actually drinkable and recognizable as a pinot at $5 per bottle is amazing enough, so let's just say it did it's job.
And drank this and used it on a homemade marinara over rotini. The marinara was delicious, and would be a good base for any variation I wanted to make on pasta sauces. I'll definitely be keeping this recipe.
Comments
I'll second the Concannon recommendation. We sold that at Chuckie's, and that's actually the first thing I looked for when I bought this bottle of BV. Alas, the local Safeway only carries the Concannon Chardonnay, no Pinot Noir.