Inexpensive Pinot Noir Recommendations?

"Joe "Beppe"Rosenberg" in news: snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

Yes, surely. It's currently popular in the wine world.

"ISBN 0520241142" should fetch it up from Amazon or any other online bookseller (or even from Google).

Here is a little more about it that I wrote elsewhere:

... depth of historical background, for example the author's awareness and employment of the diversity of US consumer wine publications at the time when Pinot was breaking out as a premium varietal in California circa 1980. He appears also to use Schoonmaker and Marvel's seminal, visionary 1941 book _American Wines_ though he doesn't name it explicitly within the text. The tedious but crucial process of becoming aware of sources such as those, which don't land in your lap or pop up on search engines, is how authors distinguish themselves with real research and therefore perspective. We could use more of that today.

-- Really trivial typo correction now ensues.

I wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com...

FYPI that was drafted "you will have read," and in the proofing it was supposed to shrink to "you have read," but by mistake became "you will read," which now looks to be accurate after all. La ronde! :-)

I don't have time to read through all the threads to see if this has been covered, but I've finally tried Rex-Goliath! pinot noir and I like it. Another good one from the same general area is Echelon. The Sanford 2003 is crap and to be avoided, but earlier vintages are good. The namesake of Sanford has been forced out. The new owners also got rid of their winemaker and gave up their organic designation.

Me too, as well as many others in this NG. There are many messages dating from 2003 about Rex 47lb. PN. Maybe you could do a Google, or "whatever" search for older messages. As I recall, the messages were overwhelmingly positive.

Enjoy, Dick R.

Three Buck Chuck - for the price you get a cork and it's decent. Which is about all you can expect in the sub-basement.

] ] Three Buck Chuck - for the price you get a cork and it's decent. Which ] is about all you can expect in the sub-basement. ]

Is the cork supposed to be a plus? :)

I've never understood why the US, with low labor costs, low taxes, low charges, etc, doesn't manage to be able to sell decent drinkable wine in the sub $5 range. Whereas in Europe (as has been noted) there is plenty of decent to even good available there, and the costs of doing business is indisputably much higher...

Just had a 5EU Beaumes de Venise coop with dinner, a very correct CdR indeed.

-E

I suspect the "s" word has a lot to do with it. Interesting you mention CdR, because I had one from the local Whole Foods last night. Also a very enjoyable sub-$10.00 wine. But the name...I forget....and it is gone.

If your name is Richard Neidich: Yes.

M.