Picker's Plonk

I tried a bottle of pinot noir from the Marlborough region last week called Picker's Plonk. I don't know what plonk means in the context of wine, but it was not flavorful. It was easy going down but bland. I think that I need to go for more expensive pinot noirs to have them be good.

I am reading a good book at the moment called Extreme Weather Events by Tim Jones. He's a New Zealander who lives in Wellington. The book is a collection of his short stories about the dystopia we face if global warming achieves its worst case scenario. The stories are sad and bleak but why would they be anything different.