Under the right circumstances, in ideal climatic conditions, pinot noir can produce the richest, most velvet-smooth wines in the world. The best-of-the-best are acknowledged to come from the Cote d’Or ...

For Pinot Noir, the challenging 2010 vintage in California was a referendum on style. In a year where ripeness was elusive, what would wines reveal? The best of them, listed here, showed clarity of ...

Six Pinot Noir wines won Platinum medals at the 2024 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA). The competition is the largest wine competition in the world and is considered among the most prestigious. Over ...

The worry over what a real Pinot noir wine is ends when the comparisons between those made in California and those made in Burgundy, France, end. These may as well be from two different grapes and, ...

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If you were at Free Range Kitchen in Basalt for the Pinot Posse dinner earlier this month, then you had your fair share of Pinot Noir from a host of outstanding producers. I made a point of asking ...

A note on the 2020 vintage: Smoke from summer wildfires tainted red grapes in some Sonoma County vineyards in 2020, and thin-skinned pinot noir grapes were the most vulnerable. Depending on location, ...

Alsatian Pinot Noir is finally stepping into the spotlight. The addition of the red wine grape to the Grand Cru vineyard sites Hengst and Kirchberg de Barr in August 2022 has paved a dazzling road for ...

Pinot Noir has a problem. The problem is far too many wine lovers think you have to spend a fortune to find a great Pinot Noir. Part of this public relations nightmare has to do with the world-class ...

Pinot noir is one of the best-known, most easily recognized grape varieties for wine enthusiasts around the world. Until it isn’t. That was my experience last week, when I led a tasting for ...

We were literally awash in seas of Pinot this year. The wine's hotness persists, even as prices have floated north and the appetite for expensive wine has floated south. But some of the most ...