Boekenoogen Pinot Noir
24 W. Carmel Valley Road, Carmel Valley | (831) 659-4215, boekenoogenwines.com
Paul Hamrick outlasted 56 other students and 17 rounds of an epic Monterey Countywide Spelling Bee earlier this month, spelling words like Baedeker, taiga and zephyr. He did not have to spell Boekenoogen to win, though we raise of glass of Boekenoogen Pinot in his honor—because it’s delicious, because Weekly readers vote it the best red in the land with regularity and because Hamrick can’t raise a glass himself; he’s in seventh grade.