 Hey there, njroot22.com here with another cheap wine reviews vlog. This is no-nonsense, non-BS related wine. Our main objective is to see how we feel after two bottles. That's our line in the sand. I'll remind you. Everybody has a line in the sand. If you're a 92 pound woman, you might only be one bottle. I'm 200 pounds, I'm two bottles. So that is it. But we normally do red wines and we usually like the Spanish wines. We like higher percentage wines and we also like to spend no more than $10 a bottle in general and between $5 and $10. They have $3 wines out there, I'm not sure how I'm ready to try them. However, today we're looking at something called the Saddle Bread Seller's Pinot Noir. I'm going to try and zoom in. I'm using a fixed lens. It probably might work. You never know. I'll hold it up there for a few seconds. You never know if it'll work. But this is called Saddle Bread Seller's. If it doesn't work, oh well. It's a Pinot Noir and it comes out of this company called InterTrade USA Company. They're an importer of distributors of fine wines and spirits. And this Saddle Bread Seller's, if you really need to hear this crap because I really think the vernacular and the whole mindset of the wine industry is kind of just unnecessary. It's alcohol. It affects your body, impairs your motor functions, makes you feel good most of the time unless you're one of those angry people. Who knows why people drink wine? We could probably get a side note here. I was going to go 11 days in a row without having any wine at all. This would have been my sixth night in a row. But I did five nights prior here without drinking, giving my liver a break. I was going to do 11 days before my annual birthday celebration. But I just couldn't do it. My record for 2018 is six days in a row without having a sip of wine. I broke it. I really don't care. I don't owe anything to anybody. So anyway, this Saddle Bread, and by the way, this is only a 12% alcohol. I think they're 2014. This is a 2015 vintage, by the way. The 2014 was 12 and a half. We're talking low end alcohol. And I've always had this theory that the lower the alcohol, the worse I'm going to feel the next day because of the whatever else is in there, the whatever 88% of whatever, mostly water, but you never know what they're throwing at. So I'm going to read this stupid, you know, the prepared statement. It's almost like a press release from a freaking politician. It's like a hook. It's your own experience that you should write these things. Whatever. I'm going on and on. Carefully selected grapes, carefully. There's probably tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, or millions of grapes that go into all of these productions. How can they carefully select them? Look at them one by one, or is it just the breed of grape? Whatever. Or is it by hand? How many undocumented workers are picking these grapes? Anyway, this is Italy, so they're probably not undocumented. At the peak of ripeness, well I don't think anybody ever would put like a green grape. That's white wine. Peak of ripeness and then carefully fermented at controlled temperatures to preserve the freshness of the fruit aromatics and flavors with maximum intensity of color. I think they just defined wine making. I mean, there's nothing special about that. Do you think someone like at a different winery, you know, like recklessly ferments it at wildly changing temperatures to, you know, take a crapshoot at the freshness? No. Every winemaker carefully ferments their wine at controlled temperatures. This is what bugs me about this, and like nobody challenges this stuff. Anyway, a little side note here, super side note. This wine, the Saddle Bread Cellars Pinot Noir, apparently is the only wine this cellar makes, cellar is cellar. And it goes for between $9 and $11 if you search online, whatever. Whatever Google tells you are the first page or two of results. Some guy in the Hunterdon County area loves this stuff so much, which is great. Everybody loves what they like, or likes what they love, or loves what they love, or likes what they like. He bought like 10 or 20 cases of this stuff and Shoprite Liquors, you know, brought it in. This is $5.99 currently, I think they're down to their last case, but it's an extraordinarily good value wine for us for $7.50, it comes out to a $12, $11.99 for a double bottle, which is, you know, right there in the zone, I like to pay like $10, like the Rex Goliath back in the day was a really good wine, but they ruined it. They say the aroma of this wine is aroma. I mean, what if you have no sense of smell? Ripe cherry and vibrant raspberry with hints of pomegranate, you know, I'm going to pour some right now. Let's just pour a little bit in this glass, and I'm not going to shake it, I don't care what legs it has, or lingering, you know what, I have to say it doesn't have some of the other cheaper wine kind of like taint to it, I'm going to sip it. It's a really good tasting wine. And the whole thing of Pinot Noir, Cabernet, Monastrel, Malbec, Temperny, I don't know, I mean, it's a wine, it tastes, this is actually the flavor of this wine, and I think this is so irrelevant because after a glass or two, I'm only on like glass one and a half here. You don't care, you could start out with a Pinot Noir, you can do a Malbec, you can do a Cabernet, you're not going to give a crap after two or three bottles and once you're, I mean two or three glasses into your second bottle. But they say the taste, this is, they list this production notes, taste, won't everybody taste something different? Smooth and silky on the palate, that I will agree with, I see I will, I'm not going to like contradict it for no reason. Smooth and silky is accurate. This Pinot Noir exhibits extraordinary balance. What does balance mean, yeah? I can hold the glass pretty good, it's balanced. And a long layered finish, whaaaaa, all right, I mean like how fast it disappears, I don't, this type of stuff, I guess the thickness of it and how well, I mean these molecules in here go on your tongue and everybody's tongues are different. I do like it though, it's a very good, very good tasting wine. I'll tell you this much though, most of the time when I drink, I water my wine down two to three to one with water and ice and I drink out of a straw. This wine, if you drink like I do, does not have the same kind of tasting power or whatever you want to call it, that some of the other wines I've reviewed previously have, it's very watered down so I don't think I can water this down three to one, two to one max in order to have any kind of a taste experience, otherwise it's just an alcoholic diluted liquid that makes me feel good in a couple hours or over the course of a couple hours. It is a very good, I mean I would, if I ever went to dinner out and it was a BYOB, I would bring this with me because it's not too heavy, it's not too complicated and I think it would be a really good wine with a meal or not or in the backseat of your car or on the side of the road or in your yard or in the garage like I am right now. It's a fine wine. So I looked up, I printed some other stupid sheets out here from some winesearcher.com they have, they have like analytics about wine, like the price over the last five years and they have charts and all this crap and apparently here's some notes for this wine and I don't even know why I'm doing this because it should really be about is it taste good and how do I feel the next day and it should be like a two minute video but I'm trying to entertain myself here. Anyway, it's between nine and eleven dollars but it says this is one of the most popular Italian wines out of how many? I mean they, I don't know, there's a thousand Italian wines, if this is in the top five hundred it's the most, one of the most popular wines. See this is what I hate about generalizations. More people have been searching for this now than last year this time. I saw the chart and the chart was going down, down, down, down and then it went up at the last year. It's like a, like a rabbit, dead rabbit bounce, whatever and it's also one of the least expensive Italian wines. I've seen cheaper but whatever but they said the price has been stable for the last year and that's that. And it's Italian wine of course, saddle bread sellers. So that's it, that's all I really have to say at the moment. I think for $5.99 a bottle based on, like most people are not like me, you will not water it down and drink like efficiently, like some sort of German engineer. See I'm getting hydrated, I don't have to, I've combined two steps. Most people say, oh drink a glass of water in between every drink or every other drink and make sure you hydrate a lot before you go to bed and drink a lot of water before you start drinking. I accomplish all that in one damn step. I mix it, drink it and I don't have to worry about like sequence of events. But I still, you still have to drink extra water on top of this, this mixture. But I do, you should really try this. I mean, even if you're not a Pinot Noir type of person and remember that video, the post I put up about don't be the wine snub where people stick their freaking nostril hairs into the drink. I mean, can you invent more things to like overly and maybe fictitiously concern yourself with when it comes to just a liquid, it's a liquid. Well, I'll tell you, I like the way it tastes. I'm going to recommend this for my significant other for her to drink because I think she'll she'll really, really, really like it a lot more than than some of the other wines she likes to drink. It's a definite smooth, smooth operator. I don't know, am I wearing the right polo shirt? I mean, it's just tank, tank top, tie dye. So that's it, I've been going on 12 minutes here. I'm going to try and edit it. I never do. I may come back for a brief note when I'm, I don't know if I'm in the last because I've been like dry for the last five and a half days. The last time I drank was Sunday. This is a Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. I took five nights off. So I drank Saturday. It's like a whole six days almost. It's after, it's a close to midnight now on a Saturday night. Do you guys feel like there's, there's really a difference? I mean, this Pinot Noir doesn't taste really any different than the Cabernet's can taste different within the Cabernet grape and the Monastrel's can taste different within the Monastrel category. This could be a Cabernet or it could be a Garnache, Garn, Garnache, I don't know. That's it. I will come back with a follow up and I'm not doing, excuse me, I'm not doing the day after videos anymore because I forget most of the time and I don't want to go back and fake it and say, it's all good, it's all, I put a little graphic up at the end of the video. I did that with one of my last videos in the episode 11. I said, hey, you know, this Shania is good, but don't you dare go over your limit because you will, it's like a steep cliff. I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I'm doing good. Some wines have that very fine line where you can have one, two, three, four, five, six glasses, seventh glass. I guess everybody's different and maybe I'm even different. Like if my liver is feeling strong, maybe I can go an extra glass, but if you're all beat up and you had a bad week, maybe you can't handle more. I don't know. Maybe the reverse is true. Maybe it's like your liver is like a muscle, you've got to exercise it. Maybe the more you drink, the more you can handle it. I don't know. I'm almost done. I'm halfway done. I'm going to top this thing off and finish with some water. I might leave my ESO with some of this to taste if she comes down from the bedroom, but that's it for now. I will be back. Anyway, I'll conclude that this Pinot Noir, this saddle bread, sellers, I like it. I will buy it as long as it's $5.99 a bottle at Shop Right Liquors. It's a very great tasting wine. I'm not going to explain why, because every freaking time it's some sort of completely random array of words. Oh, it was plum, it was this, it was finished, God, shut up. It was good tasting. And I will reiterate that it had a very smooth and silky finish on the palate when you drink it out of a wine glass. And it was just perfect. It's almost like, I might have to just reserve it for a summer drink. It's so good ice cold. It's like 38 degrees here right now in October. We're going to give a thumbs up for this, but this, thanks to Curtis at Shop Right Liquors, he recommended this to me and it's, like I said, $5.99 at Shop Right Liquors in Clinton, New Jersey, anywhere from $9 to $11 online, so you're getting a really good deal. I'm going to buy the last case if no one does. I like it enough and I'm not a pinot noir guy. So have a nice night and enjoy the rest of your week. Have a good night and turning everything off. Take care.