Purchase Price: $13.99
For those of you who do not know, I started a wine club that is still in its early inception. We get together the second Wednesday of the month and try wines of a specified category (tonight's is the 3rd Wednesday because it was too hard to get back in the groove after New Year's, etc.
Most of the group does not drink wine frequently, so we have started simple with single grape varietals. Tonight we got cancelled by light snowfall **HELLO, this is Atlanta**, so I'm digging into a pinot at home instead.
This is on the high end for my everyday sippin' wine, but I've heard good things and have wanted to try Castle Rock's pinot.
The color: purple to maroon
The nose: plummy and spicy.
The taste: lighter and delicate than I anticipated. Cherry and plum are dominate, but a hint of pencil lead lingers on the palate. There is also a subtle floral note. Not as much spice in the taste as in the bouquet. Since this is a new world wine from mid-California coastal region, I expected much more fruit and a fuller-bodied wine, even though it's a pinot.
Sippin' Scale:
Would sip again
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