Our take
Francis Coppola Diamond Appellation Series Santa Barbara County Pinot Noir Red Wine, 750 mL
- Style
- Red wine
- Size
- 750 ml
- Grape
- Pinot Noir
- Shelf barcode
- 0739958174524
Our take
What we make of this bottle
In our September 2026 checks, the lowest observed price for this Pinot Noir was $18.99 across three stores. This wine carries the Francis Coppola name, and the winery behind it says the Coppola family bought its Geyserville, California estate, once called Chateau Souverain, back in 2006. That is company history, not a note about this particular bottle.
Category guides tie Pinot Noir to red cherry, berry and plum, give it a lighter color and less tannin than Cabernet Sauvignon, and note that site and ripeness can carry it from bright and delicate to darker and fuller. The rating is where caution comes in, since the number of shopper ratings so far is 1, at 5 out of five, too thin a basis to read as a settled view.
The exact bottle behind this label is harder to place than most in this producer's range. Francis Ford Coppola Winery's current site organizes an Appellation Series inside its Diamond Collection, but that series currently lists only two wines, a Santa Lucia Highlands Chardonnay and a Sonoma County Sauvignon Blanc; no Pinot Noir appears in it, and no page on the producer's site names a Santa Barbara County bottling under any collection. We treat this as an open naming gap rather than guess which current or past release the label refers to, so no producer tasting or technical data appears here for this specific wine.
Our call: this is a bottle for a shopper who trusts the grape and the family name over a documented pedigree; Pinot Noir's general character holds regardless of appellation, and the Coppola name carries the Geyserville estate's history, even though that history is brand-level, not proof of this bottle's own vineyard. Pass if a confirmed origin matters to you; we could not find a Santa Barbara County Pinot Noir anywhere on the producer's current site, so the appellation named on this label remains unconfirmed, and the single shopper rating on record is too thin to lean on instead.
The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.
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Read our take →The prices we checked
Dated store checks, not a promise about your store.
- Kroger, Atlanta suburbs, GA$23.49
- Kroger, Cincinnati, OH$18.99
- Kroger, Richmond, VA$19.99
The regular price can vary by store and date.
From the producer
Estate acquisition
Francis Ford Coppola Winery says the Coppola family purchased its Geyserville, California estate, formerly Chateau Souverain, in 2006.
Research status
What we are still checking
Our overview above draws on the dated store feed, shopper ratings, our region and grape research, and any sourced producer facts. We are still working to confirm the current release, the full producer record, and the bottle itself, and we update this page as we learn more.
Getting to know Pinot Noir.
Pinot Noir is a red grape with relatively thin skins. It is used for still red wine and as one of the main grapes in many traditional-method sparkling wines.
Category guide
What to expect in the glass
Regional category guides commonly describe red cherry, berry and plum, with lighter color and less tannin than Cabernet Sauvignon. Site and ripeness can shift it from bright and delicate to darker and fuller.
Sources: New Zealand Winegrowers; Napa Valley Vintners. Checked Aug 10, 2026. See all 105 Pinot Noir wines we cover →
Where this information comes from
- Store listing
- Price, package, product identifier, and shopper rating. Checked Aug 10, 2026.
- Barcode
- The shelf barcode shown here is computed from the store product identifier. It has not been checked against a bottle.
- Method
- Every price, rating and fact here is a dated observation. How we check.