N.V. Pinot Evil (or "How to make 10,000 cases of wine from 5,000 cases of juice)

COLOR: 5/5 - Translucent strawberry color.
NOSE: 6/15 - Initially there was virtually nothing except for a whiff of alcohol. After being open for a few hours there's still very little on the nose. What nose there is is yeasty and tinny.
FLAVOR: 4/10 - Thin, thin, thin. Very little flavor, astringent, with underlying strawberry and fig. Makes you want to chug the glass with the hope of passing enough wine over your palate to taste SOMETHING.
FINISH: 5/10 - Short, unimpressive finish of watered down strawberry and raspberry. POTENTIAL: 1/5 - No fruit, weak structure. Not past it's prime in terms of aging, I just don't think there *is* a prime for this wine.
OVERALL: 1/5 - Worst Pinot Noir I can recall. Other than the color, there was nothing remotely Pinot Noirish about this. It drinks like watered down unsweetened strawberry kool-aid with a healthy dose of Absolut Kurant.

This is wasted money AT ANY PRICE. This bottle was a gift and I still feel like I overpayed. It really reminds me of Jello shots from my college days were a 'clever' roommate used Absolut Kurant vodka with watermelon Jello. It was terrible (but got you a buzz).

As a FYI, I make every effort to write my reviews & score a wine without looking at other reviews. Rating a good wine is much easier than rating a bad wine. Trying to objectively score a weak offering like this definitely makes you look in parts of the rating spectrum you don't normally venture into, so it becomes an exercise in trying to re-set the mental expectation for what a zero would be and determine where the current sample rates.

After all of that, my 72 point rating for this wine came out dead-on the CellarTracker average (range of scores was 52 to 85 points). It was a wine that didn't have a whole lot actively bad about it, but had little (if anything) good going for it.