MezzaCorona Pinot Grigio

Name: MezzaCorona
Color: White
Varietal: Pinot Grigio
Vintage: 2008
Country/State: Italy
Region: Trentino - Alto Adige
Price: $8
Stars: 3.5 (out of 5)

For a widely available, inexpensive, mass-produced wine, this MezzaCorona Pinot Grigio is very good. It's a wine that's definitely meant to be drunk young, and it functions as a cool, crisp, refreshing white for a hot summer day. The color is a pale straw, with a nose and taste of lemon, lime, peach, and citrus.

We drank this wine first on Friday night, with tilapia and crab meat. We finished it tonight on its own after dinner. The wine went well with the fish and was also very refreshing and tasty without food. It's hard to get too excited about a cheap Pinot Grigio, but for a summer sipper, you could do a lot worse than the MezzaCorona.