The Recipient Pinot Noir Red California Wine

The shelf prices we saw for The Recipient Pinot Noir in our August 2026 checks were all between $24.88 and $24.99. It is sold as a California Pinot Noir, in a 750 ml bottle.

The most specific description of this wine comes from the site listing it: Corks + Cheers lists The Recipient Pinot Noir as a Russian River Valley wine and names Matt Shuplock as the winemaker. That is the listing's account rather than the producer's, and the origin we confirmed ourselves is California, the state.

We do not have a shopper rating for this wine. Among the wines we cover that carry shopper scores, the median is 4.71 out of five.

The regional guides' Pinot Noir description starts with red cherry and adds berry and plum, in a wine showing less color and less tannin than Cabernet Sauvignon, and those guides note that site and ripeness can move the style from bright and delicate to darker and fuller. Our grape research adds that its skins are comparatively thin. Because growing place can affect Pinot Noir's style, where the fruit grew is a fair question, and the only account naming a place smaller than California is the shop's. Are a named valley and a named winemaker, on a listing's word, reason enough to choose an unscored Pinot Noir over a bottle shoppers have already scored?

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