Barefoot Cellars Pinot Noir California Red Wine

Pinot Noir is a red grape with relatively thin skins, used for still red wine and as one of the main grapes in many traditional-method sparkling wines. Regional category guides commonly describe red cherry, berry and plum, with lighter color and less tannin than Cabernet Sauvignon, and they add that site and ripeness can shift the result from bright and delicate to darker and fuller. Where this California bottle sits on that span, the store listing does not say.

The price is what sets this bottle apart within the reds. The lowest shelf tag our checks have logged is $7.99, and almost no red in our coverage has posted a lower one. That statement rests on tags from nine stores; the most recent sweep of them finished on August 12, 2026, and the highest tag in the set is $12.99.

51 shoppers have scored it, which makes this one of the more heavily rated wines among the 483 we track; on average they give it 4.45 stars.

Our call: buy it for the price first; this sits among the least expensive reds we track, and the shoppers scoring it form one of the larger rating pools in our coverage. Pass if standing matters more than savings, because that same pool puts the average below the middle of the rated wines we cover.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Aug 14, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.