Category Archives: pinot noir

Tastecamp Day 3: Leading the Way with Pinot

By Remy Charest | Published: May 10, 2010
If you want to know if a wine region has potential, look to the best. There can always be stragglers and careless winemakers, but looking at what the top vignerons can do will really let you know the possibilities. Looking at the top wines we tasted over the weekend at Tastecamp, it’s clear that the Finger [...]
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Tasting notes: Le Clos Jordanne, Le Clos Jordanne Vineyard 2006 chardonnay and pinot noir, Twenty Mile Bench

By winecase | Published: April 19, 2009
I’ve been a fan of Le Clos Jordanne wines since their first release, the 2004 vintage, two years ago. Made from young vines, they may not have had the depth of great wines, but they certainly showed the promise. It was terrific to taste pinot noir that from the Niagara that had such a clear [...]
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Pinot chocolat? Won't those New Zealanders stop at anything?

By winecase | Published: April 1, 2009
For a guy like me who loves the most natural wines, New Zealand is often a disappointment, with wines that are pure products of modern oenology. But I never thought the doctoring would go as far as this: Kim Crawford’s Pinot Chocolat, for which cocoa bean extract was added to the tank at the moment of [...]
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WBW 55 Trial Run: North vs South in Radio-Coteau pinots

By winecase | Published: March 10, 2009
Periodically, I’m grabbed by the urge to pull a bottle out of the cellar, unplanned and by itself, not for a meal or special occasion. That’s how I wound up pulling out a 2005 Savoy pinot noir by Radio-Coteau, Eric Sussman’s winemaking operation in Forestville, California. Sussman, who started Radio-Coteau in 2002, learned the trade in [...]
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Tasting Note: 1996 Carneros Pinot Noir, Saintsbury

By winecase | Published: December 22, 2008
The one advantage to having been held at home for the day by today’s snowstorm, instead of flying to join my family in Switzerland for the Christmas holidays, is that I got to eat dinner with my parents. A nice, quiet dinner, where we got to talk and talk, and catch up on a lot [...]
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