Chevalier du Grand Robert Pinot Noir

Chevalier du Grand Robert Pinot Noir carries a confirmed place once you go past the store listing: the importer's tech sheet places the grapes in West Aude, in the IGP Pays d'Oc appellation of southern France, and names Les Vignobles Foncalieu as the producer. Executive Beverage, the distributor, lists the brand in its national portfolio. Most of the stores we checked priced it at $19.99 in our September 2026 checks.

One store checked higher, at $24.88, in our September 2026 checks. Guides say site and ripeness can shift Pinot Noir from bright and delicate to darker and fuller, a range that covers the grape rather than this specific bottle, and that is worth remembering if you are picking between bottles at the shelf. We do not have a shopper rating for this bottle. Which Pinot Noir on the shelf would you reach for first, this one or a place you already know?

The tech sheet adds the winemaking specifics: the wine is 100 percent Pinot Noir, picked in September from limestone-clay plains with a wide day-to-night temperature swing, a pattern regional guides tie to fresher acidity, then fermented in stainless steel to 13.5 percent alcohol with 0.2 percent residual sugar, essentially dry. The producer calls Pinot Noir 'an emerging grape varietal' for the region, and Tastings.com recognized the finished wine with a Silver Medal, a Highly Recommended rating and a Best Buy distinction.

Our call: reasonable if a stated place, a named maker and an independent award are enough to go on; Les Vignobles Foncalieu and the West Aude vineyards are now on record, and Tastings.com gave the wine a Silver Medal and a Best Buy call. Pass if you want the crowd's word too, or an established regional track record for the grape; no shopper rating has reached our record, and the producer itself calls Pinot Noir an emerging varietal for this part of France.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.