Wine of the Day, No. 93

The color of the Mud House Pinot Noir 2013, from New Zealand's Marlborough region, is such a lovely, limpid, transparent ruby hue that

you could be forgiven for wanting just to gaze upon it for a while, as one might be mesmerized by a glass of red wine in a Dutch still-life painting. Take a sniff, though, to encounter the wine's winsome notes of cloves a…