Echelon Pinot Noir, 2008

Tonight we started our quest to learn more about wine with a bottle of Echelon Pinot Noir that we picked up at PCC this afternoon, regularly priced at $15 but on sale for $10. Overall, this was a very drinkable wine, but not especially interesting, complex, or "wow-worthy." I detected a distinct vanilla aroma, and we both felt that the wine would be categorized as dry and light. Patrick picked up some black cherry, but I never really got too much of that. This is a perfectly fine table wine to go with dinner, but if we'd paid the full $15 I think I would have felt that we paid too much. On a scale of 1-5, this wine is a 3 - drinkable, but nothing special.