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Weekday Wine

Weekday Wine

You don’t need a sommelier to tell you that any of these well-rated bottles, all priced under $50, are excellent weekday wines. Cab? Chardonnay? Pinot Noir? They’re all here, and perfect with whatever you’re rustling up in the kitchen.

2014 Joseph Phelps Pastorale Vineyard Block 212 Pinot Noir

Light label condition issue

VN  94   

2002 Shafer Vineyards Red Shoulder Ranch Chardonnay

RP  94   
WE  92   
ST  90   

2005 Quilceda Creek Red

Lightly elevated cork

WA  93   
ST  90   

2007 Quilceda Creek Red

WA  93   

2009 Quilceda Creek Red

WA  92   
ST  91   

2016 Quilceda Creek Red

JD  93   
WA  92   
ST  90   

2014 Ridge Lytton Springs

Light label condition issue

VN  94+    

2007 Ridge Santa Cruz Mountain Estate Chardonnay

Light label condition issue

WS  93   

2020 Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet-Shiraz

Light label condition issue

WA  96   
JS  96   
WS  94   
VN  94   
JR  17   

2018 Penfolds Bin 704 Cabernet Sauvignon

Signs of past seepage

WE  96   
VN  93   
WA  91   

2019 Penfolds Bin 704 Cabernet Sauvignon

Light label condition issue

WA  94+    
JR  17.5   

2019 Penfolds Bin 704 Cabernet Sauvignon

Lightly depressed cork

WA  94+    
JR  17.5   

2005 Louis Jadot Pommard

Heavy label condition issue

WS  90   

2017 Heitz Cabernet Sauvignon

Light label condition issue

WS  91   
WA  90   

2015 Marchesi Antinori Villa Antinori Chianti Classico Riserva

Lightly elevated cork

WS  94   
WE  93   
WA  91   
VN  91   

1997 Robert Mondavi Reserve Pinot Noir

Light label condition issue

RP  92   
ST  90   

1997 Robert Mondavi Reserve Pinot Noir

RP  92   
ST  90   

2017 Cayuse Edith Armada Vineyard Grenache Rose

JS  92   
JD  92   
WA  91+    
ST  91   
WE  91   
WS  90   

2017 Cayuse No Girls Double Lucky #8

OB  94   

1996 Beringer Bancroft Ranch Howell Mountain Merlot

Light capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; mid shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  93   
ST  92   

1996 Beringer Bancroft Ranch Howell Mountain Merlot

RP  93   
ST  92   

1994 Beringer Knights Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  91   

2019 Far Niente Chardonnay

WE  94   

2022 Far Niente Post & Beam Carneros Chardonnay

WE  94   

2019 Paul Hobbs Crossbarn Napa Cabernet Sauvignon

JS  94   
VN  92   
JD  92   
WA  91