Firesteed Oregon Pinot Noir 2024
This value Oregon Pinot Noir has been around since 1992.
This Brand has been bought and sold several times, but it still tastes good.
It is Oregon Pinot Noir, not just Williamette Valley Pinot, but it drinks well.
It is Old School in style, which is the way I like it.
Twelve bucks gets you a delicious very useable Pinot Noir for your summer outings.
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Hey, welcome Domain Dave here at CheapWineFinder.com. Again and again and again and again and again. And we always talk about value-priced wines because that's where the action is. Um well not so much anymore since the wine industry and the spirits and the beer are all having major problems. But we're still trying to out there finding gems, and there are actually gonna be uh wines that used to cost more than and now they're sneaking in the lower levels, hoping to accelerate the the selling of it. And here we go. Anyway, this is a uh Fire Steed Oregon Pinot Noir 2024. I picked it up at Trader Joe's for $11.99, and when I checked the web for all the internet uh wine shops, most of the prices are uh between um 15 and 20. So, you know, if you're in Trader Joe's, you see it, it's got a very colorful label. It never had that colorful label before, and we have um CWF, uh Chief Winefinder has um reviewed these over the years. This is maybe our fourth review. We haven't done one in about four years. And there's one thing about this one that's kind of cool, and I didn't even know about it. There is such a thing. It won the, let me get the bottle out here, the Clean Label Project Purity Award. And what they do is they test they test other products, but they test it for impurities and toxins and things that you don't find on the label, but are there, and they and they don't have it, and then they uh benchmark it against what other wines do, and you got to be in the top certain percent, I think top 20% to even get considered for a war. And then they you can't just cram to win the test once and then put all the bad stuff back in. They continuously test it. So this Fire Steed Oregon Pinot Noir, and I put a link to their website uh for the clean label award, so you can kind of um figure out what's going on there. So, what do we got here? Um, it's an Oregon Pinot Noir, it's not Willamette Valley only, although there is Willamette uh grapes in here, but it's up and down the Oregon coast. There's these mountain areas, and uh what's it? There's a there's a Rogue Valley and uh a couple other ones. They're not as famous as Willamette, but they're they're good growing regions and they grow good pinot noir. And uh so here we are. We got a kind of a taste of Oregon, and it for 12 bucks, and actually this thing I think lists for 25. So this isn't any kind of they're not really, you know, they're not really cutting costs here. So this is a good, you know, a good Oregon Pinot Noir. I'm gonna take a sip of it. It's a see-through cherry red. Uh oh. Um Pinot Noir grapes are really thin. They don't they give a color off, but you're not gonna get a deep dark, you know, a wine like uh Cabernet Franc or something. You you you could actually read uh writing through this glass, and it tastes and smells like old school Pinot Noir before they started uh upping the alcohol content to 14.9 and and adding uh Petite Suran there for the new Pinot Noirs. I I think the new Pinot Noirs are fine as a as a red blend, but I don't really like them as a Pinot Noir, and this I like. It's got interesting flavors, it's got the it's got the scents like it's got uh crushed autumn leaves and herbs and got these funky scents in there. Some are really crazy. This one's more uh easy to get along with the other sip. It's an easy to drink one, but it's not simple. I mean it goes down smooth. Um yeah, but it's it's not just uh what's up front is what you get. It's got some little complexity to the flavors. It's old school in that it has kind of uh flavors that you wouldn't go, oh, that's really tasty. You go, what is that? And after a while, after you start drinking a little bit more, you it kind of draws you in. You go, okay, I like that. And when you don't get that, yeah, what's wrong? I I like that crazy flavor. So here we go. This is a good uh sipping pinot noir. Uh great. I don't know about well, you could probably it's a light pinot noir, it's got a little bit of body, a lot of flavor. And you could probably again with salads, with um pork, with with white Italians, um, Italian pastas with white sauce would go here too. But it's a sipping wine. This is um it's not that crazy. It's what's in the glass seems to be good because they made sure they check for taxes and impurities, and it doesn't have any. But it tastes good. If you like old school Pinot Noir, and you like Oregon Pinot Noir, but you don't really want to spend sixty dollars on a wine today. The Firesteed Oregon Pinot Noir 2020 is a good wine, it's been around since 1992. It was the House Red at the Clinton um White House. So it's it's no uh it's no Johnny Cum lately. It's been around and it's it's had like three or four different owners over the years, but it's still good. So there you go for uh domain dave, cheapwinefighter.com. I'm gonna finish this podcast off, start doing some production, and enjoy me a glass of wine. So audio, keep it cheap. I'll be talking to everyone in a little bit. Bye bye.
