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Duckhorn Wine Co’s more affordable Pinot, made from grapes that didn’t quite make the cut for their Goldeneye brand is a great classic California Pinot…Tastes wholesome, like the kind of juice you pour for your five year old while he annihilates Pb&J. Fruity, maybe missing the depth of “world class” pinot noir (whatever the hell that is?), still, a very tasty pinot noir in the $20 price range.

Don’t let us mislead you into thinking this wine is just a good ordinary wine— I gotta say I’m enjoying the hell out of it. This isn’t one that you stand a fork up in or anything… but instead, place yourself into a spring afternoon… the weather’s not so cold that you want a robust, chewey Cab, and not so hot that you want a Chardonnay or… well… Coors… it’s just one of those comfy days where everything’s green and the wildflowers are crackin’. And you want some red wine, so you crack open this sumbitch, this bottle of Migration Pinot, and you say to yourself, “Damn, self, this is some good shit.”

Hopefully you’ll be with someone else, so you can skip the “damn self” part.

In retrospection, the damn “pour it for your five year old” comment may be plain unfair; the kind of short term thinking that earns you a kick in the nuts and a “insensitive bastard” moniker. Demonstrate some intelligence, pour a few sips as you open the botlte, let the alcohol take effect, and show some goddamn patience (an hour).

We give it a 92, then we’re gonna add 10 ’cause the sun came out, then it rained today, but then we’re gonna take away 12 because the five-year-old puked on my new carpet.

(OK OK, we’re lying about the five-year-old so please don’t send us any hate mail).

(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5)

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