QPR Pinot Noir

[dananne]

As always, we're fond of daily-drinker PN. It gets hard to justify cracking a $30+ PN on a weeknight if only one of us is drinking. So, we recently revisited Stephen Vincent, one we've enjoyed in the past. The 2006 ran us $14, and if you can find one at that price point, it's a steal. Very light, translucent ruby in color, with great red fruit aromas and flavors. Light and snappy and a very nice example of a feminine style of PN. We'll enjoy it all summer long. Very nice stuff. Alc. 13.6%.

As for other recent QPR PN, we've also had good luck with the latest vintage ('07) of Queen of Hearts by Daniel Gehrs (it runs around $12 these days, and I'd put my money on it year-in-and-year-out as the best QPR PN out there), A by Acacia (closer to $17), and we had a very nice closeout PN by the RRV outfit Hook & Ladder. It was an '06 and worth every penny of the $22 we paid.