Name: Barefoot “Light and Breezy” Pinot Grigio
Type/Grape: Pinot Girgio
Region: Not specified on bottle
Vintage: Also not specified
Price: $6.99
Today we are trying an extra cheap wine: Barefoot “Light and Breezy” Pinot Grigio. This wine is so cheap and disregarded that I can’t find any “expert” reviews of it - so we’ll just have to go by random internet reviews!
On barefoots own website, it has a measly 3.8 / 5 starts (with one review… you can… add a decimal point to your star rating?). Elsewhere, they do not get better - on TotalWine.com, the overall score is a 3 / 5. There’s some variety in them - Lori J J expresses a love for the product, writing “I really enjoy this better than regular pinot grigio. Refreshing and flavorful.” Aerofanz laments the wine’s failure to meet expectations - “I had such high hopes for this but sadly it was so flavorless I ended up mixing it with another brand to give it some flavor.” BrianGT titled his review “Tastes like water”, going on to explain that it “literally tastes like water”.
Well… these reviews aren’t exactly inspiring. Before we go ahead and taste it, lets look at what the book says Pinot Grigio should taste like. Oh, and to give some context to the previous reviews, note that this wine is marketed as “low calorie”... whether that justifies it (literally!) tasting like water is not for me to say.
The book gives Pinot Grigio the following characteristics:
Body: low. Can confirm!
Sweetness: Can range from very dry to very sweet. I can confirm it was not very sweet. If I had to take a wild guess, I would say there might be artificial sweetener in place of sugar.
Tannins: almost none. Can confirm!
Acidity: relatively high. I think that sounds about right.
Alcohol: relatively low - also sounds about right.
Ultimately, I would give the wine a 3.5/5. I think some of the reviewers miss the point of the wine - it is meant to be very, very light - and it definitely meets that standard. Despite that, I think a light wine can have more… personality than this one did.
(TotalWine reviews: https://www.totalwine.com/wine/white-wine/pinot-grigiopinot-gris/low-calorie/barefoot-bright-breezy-pinot-grigio/p/241224750)
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