Sunny with a Chance of Flowers Pinot Noir California Low Calorie Red Wine

The name calls this a low calorie red, and the producer’s own numbers, detailed below, now stand behind the word. The grape is Pinot Noir, grown in California. In our September 2026 checks one store had it at $11.49, which sets it in the cheaper quarter of the reds we track.

Pinot Noir has thin skins for a red grape, and regional category guides place it lighter in color and lower in tannin than Cabernet Sauvignon. Whether a bottle lands bright and delicate or darker and fuller can shift, those guides say, with site and ripeness. We do not have a shopper rating for this wine.

Sunny says its wines are made at an estate winery in Monterey County. Across those same September 2026 checks, another store listed it at $19.99.

Sunny's own product page for the current listing adds the numbers the calorie-forward name implies but does not itself state: a 5-ounce glass runs 85 calories, zero grams of sugar, 3.4 grams of carbohydrates, and 9 percent alcohol by volume. The brand's own explainer describes how it gets there, and it is not simply an early picking: the wine is fermented fully to dryness first, which the producer says leaves zero residual sugar, and only afterward does a process the producer calls "Slow & Low" draw alcohol back out. Winemaker Casey Di Cesare frames the tradeoff plainly: "the only thing you're giving up is the calories and sugar." The producer's tasting notes point to black cherry, pomegranate and a silky finish with a touch of toasted oak, and the wine has drawn outside recognition in past vintages, 90 points from The Tasting Panel Magazine for the 2021 release and 92 points for the 2019. We are not naming a current vintage year here: the producer's own listing shows a 2022 date on the page itself while the underlying product data is tagged 2023, and the two have not been reconciled.

Our call: a fit for a shopper choosing on the calorie-and-alcohol trade the name promises; Sunny's own numbers back it up, 85 calories and 9 percent alcohol by the glass, reached by fermenting fully dry and then pulling alcohol back out rather than picking early, and the price already sits in the cheapest quarter of the reds we track. Pass if a settled vintage or a shopper rating matters to you; no rating has reached our record, and the producer's own pages disagree on whether the current bottle is the 2022 or 2023 release.

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