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Aldi's $7.99 Florility French Organic Pinot Noir 2024
A $7.99 French Pinot Noir that’s organic, carbon neutral, and made by a B-Corp shouldn’t be this easy to drink—and yet here we are. We pull the cork on Florility French Organic Pinot Noir 2024 from Aldi and get honest about what’s in the glass, what’s on the label, and what really matters for a weeknight pour. The twist? It’s labeled “Product of France,” not from a famous region, sparking a candid look at terroir, consistency, and how modern drinkers balance place with principles.
We walk through the story behind Ethic Drinks—B-Corp certification, organic farming, vegan-friendly fining, and cause-driven lines that plant trees and help clean the oceans—then put the wine to the taste test. Expect a smooth, approachable Pinot with black cherry, plum, a touch of spice, and those savory pencil-lead and tar hints that give Pinot its quiet edge. It won’t morph from sip to sip like a top cru, but it delivers friendly texture and steady flavor that make sense for pizza night, roast chicken, or backyard hangs. If you’re chasing a site-specific, shape-shifting Burgundy experience, this isn’t your bottle; if you want honest, ethical, and affordable, it hits the brief.
Along the way, we unpack vegan fining in simple terms, talk about why multi-region French labeling is rare, and lay out where this wine shines and where it doesn’t. The bigger takeaway: you can support responsible producers without sacrificing everyday joy, and sometimes the best bottle is the one that fits the moment, the budget, and your values. If that sounds like your kind of pour, queue it up, grab a glass, and tell us where you land on the terroir-versus-values question.
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Hey welcome. It's Domain Dave from CheapWinefighter.com. Again for another wine review. We uh write up a review of a value-priced wine on the CheapwineFighter.com website, and then we hit the podcast and we talk about stuff we don't write down. Just thoughts about what is going on. And we have a uh$7.99 from Aldi. This is the Florility French Organic Pinot Noir 2024. This is a product of France wine, which is kind of the same as a California wine that just says California on the label rather than Sonoma or Napa or Lodi. It means it's from more than one growing region, which is kind of strange for France. They don't do that. Their whole thing is tirois. Tyrois is of the place, it's the climate, the soil, the winemakers and the vineyard workers, um, knowledge of all that. I mean, everything is a place, and it's not even a single vineyard, sometimes it's a section of a vineyard. France is very much about place. This is a wine that's not of a place. So I'm thinking that it's probably not made for the French to drink. It's an um it's made by a company called Ethic Drinks, which is a French company. They're a B corporation, which means they do all the things right. Uh they're organic, they're sustainably farm, they're carbon neutral. Um, they I think they do some wines that are biodynamic, they're vegan friendly. Vegan friendly, um, if you don't know, during the fining process, the filtering and fining process, fining means they're removing the solids from the wine just before bottling, which dead yeast, uh bits of grape residue. And typically, typically they use uh a compound with egg whites because that will coagulate everything. But and that's the best way to do it, it's the most efficient, but there are minerals that will do the same job, and while the egg whites are not vegan-friendly, the minerals are. So there you go. So most of this about this wine is about the Ethic Drinks Company. Um they have one line of wines when you buy a bottle, a tree is planted. Another one uh goes to the World Wildlife uh Fund, another one is helping them clean up all the uh plastic floating in the ocean. Uh they uh they they're kind of trying to do the right thing. So how's the wine? So yeah, so all the all the good things they're doing is the wine good. Let me see. Actually no, but gonna take a sip anyway. This is a smooth. Kind of simple, or on the simpler side for a pinot noir, pinot noirs tend to be a little bit complicated. And this isn't completely simple, it's smooth and there's some kind of rougher textures in there, which you do need from a pinot noir. But it's not, you know, it's not, it doesn't s doesn't change as it goes through. You know, sometimes with a good pinot noir, one sip tastes one way and the next sip tastes another. Now this is just soft and smooth. It's got some rough edge spice, got black cherry, it's got uh you know some weird like pencil lead type of thing, and maybe some tar, plum. All those like tar and pencil lead, like what? No, it it works with a pinot noir. So it's a decent, very drinkable pinot noir. It is um especially for$7.99, and especially since it's organic, and especially since the company does everything else that's right, you want to support people who are doing the right thing. Though in the wine industry, a lot of these wineries are doing above and beyond um really trying to be uh stewards of the land. It's not it's more common than someone who's just doing crazy stuff. So there you go. Um for little for illity, French Organic Pinot Noir 2024. I'm gonna take another sip and then we'll close up. It's a decent and expensive Pinot Noir. I just, you know, if you if you're uh you know, if you're really into the finest Pinot Noirs, it's probably not gonna do it for you, but as a glass at a at a backyard, having a sip with frenzy, I think it's just fine. But you know, for a$7 French Pinot Noir that's organic and uh sustainably farmed and all that type of thing, it's just a nice little wine. That's that's what it is. That's a nice little wine with a big heart at a cheap price. So there you go. Adios, keep it cheap, uh, domain day from cheapwinefighter.com. Uh like us, really like your podcasts. And we got more wines coming. We're heading towards the holiday season where we start going upscale. But for the time being, we're still keeping it cheap. So adios, bye bye.