TJ’s $6.99 Everyday Pinot-Loudenotte Pays D’Oc Pinot Noir 2024

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It's Domain Dave for cheaperwinefighter.com. Again, we got another um another value price wine like we always do. Um Trader Joe's wine. This is a wine that's been around for eight different vintages. Though I think um the 2023 vintage skipped my Trader Joe's because this is the Laudonette Pazdiac Pinot Noir 2024. $6.99. And I'll say right up front, it's a decent little Pinot Noir. It's not it's not a world beater, but it has its purposes and it has its place. So what's Pazdiac? Pazdiac is a region inside of the uh Languedoc Rousselon growing region of southwest France. This is the area where a lot of the value-priced wines come from. Every growing region, pretty much every growing region, not champagne and that type of thing, but um has value-priced wines because French drink a lot of wine, they drink a lot of wine for lunch, for dinner, not places where you're spending a hundred hours a bottle. So this is an area that's um a lot of wine. It's the largest growing region in uh in France, though you wouldn't know it, but because the other ones all get better press. So it's a great growing region. It's it's been a IGP. IGP is a step below AOC or AOP nowadays. They keep on changing the names of it. Which means it has fewer rules and regulations, but for a $6.99 wine that's perfectly fine. Because it doesn't have no regulation, it just has fewer. And um as I said, it's a good wine. Um it's 100% Pinot Noir. I'm gonna take a sip. I don't think it sees too much oak, but it might see just a touch. And at $6.99. So we got the the So the Ponzi Ak region is a very nice region for wine. Uh this wine has been around the Trader Joe's for eight years in a row. They're keeping the price going on it, and this is to, in my mind, the perfect patio wine. You know, the uh neighbors come over, friends come over, it's nice outside, you want a wine. It's 13% alcohol, little bit high for French Pinot Noir, but not compared to California, it's nothing. It sips really well, and it's the kind of wine that you're having good times and good conversation. That comes first, and the wine comes second, but you don't want to drink a bad wine. And this is the perfect wine for that. This is a very sippable, very nice wine, but it's okay to not concentrate on it. Just uh when you take your sip, you go, hmm, that's nice, and that's it. Because your friends are funny and you're talking about old times, good times, whatever times, you know, take a little sip. It's blueberry, it's spice, a lot of um maybe tired cranberry, that type of thing. It's nothing too complicated, but what's there is really is really tasty, really balanced. The acidity is good. I mean, it's not something you're gonna go, oh wow, the length is outstanding. None of those things are happening here. But it tastes good, and a $6.99, which at that point, what really can you ask for for a $6.99 wine other than it to be other than it fits the occasion very well. It makes you happy to drink it, and it makes you think, oh, you know, we had a you know, actually, when you think about wine how you like it, it's like what that we had a really great time last Thursday. What were we drinking? Yeah, that was good wine, because if the times are good, well then the wine is good. You can drink a you know the best wine that critics have 100 points with people you're not really crazy about, and you're not gonna remember that wine that well. I mean, it goes that way. Places, friends and wine go together, and that's one of the great things about wine. Because you can sip it and enjoy yourself. Beer goes by way too fast, and cocktails, ah, you forget what you're doing. So wine's wine's the wine of friendship, or the the drink of friendship. That's my motto here. Just another step. It's nice and smooth, but it's got that little bit of spiciness going to it just to make things interesting. So there you go. It's a it's a consistent wine from Trader Joe's. How they how they get it from France, all the way to the United States, and everybody's Trader Joe's stores for $6.99. I do not know how it is, and how do they make it be smooth and easy and refreshing and flavorful? I don't know. I I don't, you know, I'm not gonna question it because it's good and it's the perfect one for patio. Neighbors come over, you don't want to pull out the good stuff, you pull out the $5.99 stuff. That's a joke, but um, it's a good wine. That's it for me, Domain Dave. I don't know what else to say about it because it's just a nice $6.99 wine. And Pinot Noirs are not that easy to go cheap on, and this one pulls it off. So there you go. Adios, um, keep it cheap. I'll be talking to everybody in June. So adios, keep it cheap. Bye bye.