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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.

2005 Quilceda Creek Red

Lightly elevated cork

WA  93   
ST  90   

2007 Quilceda Creek Red

WA  93   

2008 Quilceda Creek Red

WA  92   

2007 Ridge Geyserville

Lightly elevated cork

WS  91   

2016 Ridge Santa Cruz Mountain Estate Chardonnay

JD  95   
JS  94   
VN  93   
WS  92   
WA  91+    

2020 Ridge Santa Cruz Mountain Estate Chardonnay

WS  94   

2018 Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet-Shiraz

JS  97   
WA  93   
JR  17.5   

2018 Penfolds Bin 704 Cabernet Sauvignon

Signs of past seepage

WE  96   
VN  93   
WA  91   

2019 Penfolds Bin 704 Cabernet Sauvignon

Lightly depressed cork

WA  94+    
JR  17.5   

2019 Penfolds Bin 704 Cabernet Sauvignon

WA  94+    
JR  17.5   

2019 Penfolds Bin 704 Cabernet Sauvignon

Light label condition issue

WA  94+    
JR  17.5   

2017 Heitz Cabernet Sauvignon

Light label condition issue

WS  91   
WA  90   

1993 Beringer Bancroft Ranch Howell Mountain Merlot

Light label condition issue

RP  93   

2018 Beringer Knights Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

JS  93   
VN  91   

2021 Paul Hobbs Russian River Valley Pinot Noir

VN  95   
WE  95   
JS  93   
WA  92   
JR  16+    

2021 Paul Hobbs Russian River Valley Pinot Noir

Lightly depressed cork

VN  95   
WE  95   
JS  93   
WA  92   
JR  16+    

2000 E. Guigal Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Light label condition issue

RP  92   
ST  92   

2020 Kosta Browne Giusti Ranch Pinot Noir

WA  90   

2013 Kosta Browne Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir

WA  93   
WS  93   
VN  90   

2014 Kosta Browne Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir

Light label condition issue

RP  93   
WS  90   

2014 Kosta Browne Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir

RP  93   
WS  90   

2016 Kosta Browne Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir

WA  91   
WS  91   

2016 Kosta Browne Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir

WA  91   
WS  91   

2017 Kosta Browne Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir

JS  94   

2000 Pride Mountain Merlot

Light label condition issue

WS  91   
RP  88-90