Edoardo Miroglio, Soli Pinot Noir, Thracian Lowlands

Pale ruby with a fresh red cherry and raspberry nose. The palate offers up sweet cherry and strawberry fruit but decent acidity to balance it with a moreish spicy finish. For the price it’s good but by any other standard of Pinot Noir it’s only decent but I’d recommend it nonetheless.

A touch lighter and less "rhubarby and celery salty" than previous vintages - this has a lighter hue. Signature notes of celery salt and red fruits and zippy, zingy finish. I like this, although could imagine why others would not. For £9 this is a good and interesting take on pinot noir - and lets face it, you aint gonna get much of interest from most regions at that price. It has a distinct flavour of pinot you wont get …

I'd heard lots of good things about Soli, so perhaps my expectations were too high. I thought this was a pretty standard inexpensive Pinot. Light red fruits, quite jammy, but lacking in depth. Nice enough, but nothing to get excited about.