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Vinography Images: The Endless Row
The Endless Row
McMINNVILLE, OR: Domaine Drouhin Winery estate Pinot Noir vineyards unroll over the hills of the Willamette Valley. The cities of McMinnville and Newburg are the epicenter of Oregon's wine production.
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The Seven Percent Solution Tasting: May 11, Healdsburg, CA
There comes a point in every intrepid wine lover's life when the well-traveled road must be left behind. One can only drink so much Cabernet, Merlot, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Sauvignon Blanc. But finding one's way out of the multitudes...Show More Summary
2013 Anderson Valley Pinot Noir Festival: May 17-19, Philo, CA
California Pinot Noir lovers take note. Wine lovers with a free weekend, listen up. It's Spring, and the wine events are coming fast and furious. It seems like every week there's a new wine tasting to go to. But some are more worth paying...Show More Summary
Vinography Images: Cover Crop
Cover Crop
HEALDSBURG, CA: Warm sunny skies bring out the wildflowers and Pinot Noir budbreak in Healdsburg, California.
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Vinography Images: Keeping It Cool
Keeping it Cool
COTATI, CA: Rolling vineyards of pinot noir and chardonnay ripen on the vine under a warm summer sun, with the cooling influence of fog Cotati, California. Sunny skies and cooperating weather are contributed to bringShow More Summary
Vinography Images: Budbreak Colors
Budbreak Colors
HEALDSBURG, CA: Warm sunny skies bring out the wildflowers and this colorful Pinot Noir budbreak on in Healdsburg, California. Thanks to a sunny March vintners in the warmer parts of California are reporting budbreakShow More Summary
Vinography Images: Behind the Gate
Behind the Gate
McMINNVILLE, OR: Rolling vineyards of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay ripen on the vine behind a gate and under a warm summer sun in the Dundee Hills near McMinnville, Oregon. The cities of McMinnville and Newburg, locatedShow More Summary
Great Dirt is Not Sentimental: Ted Lemon on Terroir
Perhaps the most commented on post I have made in the past few months has been my posting of the transcript of Matt Kramer's speech at the Wellington Pinot Noir symposium in New Zealand. Kramer's thoughts on what it takes to make truly...Show More Summary
Vinography Images: Vineyard Bowl
Vineyard Bowl
REDWOOD VALLEY, CA: A bowl-shaped vineyard of Pinot Noir ripens on the vine under a warm Mendocino County summer sun at Masut Vineyards near Redwood Valley, California. Sunny skies and cooperating weather contributed to...Show More Summary
11th Annual Pinot Noir Summit: March 16th, San Francisco
Every January, unbeknownst to most wine consumers, a group of wine writers, sommeliers, and other wine industry professionals spend many the entire month doing nothing but tasting Pinot Noir. Over many successive days, through rigorous...Show More Summary
Matt Kramer: Can Athiests Make Great Pinot Noir?
As some of you know, I'm down in Wellington, New Zealand, attending the New Zealand Pinot Noir 2013 conference. It was kicked off on Monday by two keynote addresses. The first, was by actor and winegrower Sam Neill, but the second was by wine writer Matt Kramer.
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Best of the West: Tasting the Wines of the Extreme Sonoma Coast
What are the most exciting wines being made in the state of California? From nooks, crannies, ridges and ruffles of western Sonoma county, some of the country's best Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Syrah wines are being eked out of chilly...Show More Summary
2013 Anderson Valley Alsace Festival: February 9-10, Boonville
With all the fanfare surrounding Cabernet and Pinot Noir coupled with the obsession this country seems to have with Chardonnay, it's sometimes hard for people to remember that California produces a lot of other different kinds of wine. Show More Summary
Pinot Days 2013: January 26, New York
Hey New York! What you really need to keep warm in this frigid winter is a little Pinot Noir in your blood. Large public wine tastings are much less common in Manhattan than out here in California, where it seems nearly every coupleShow More Summary
Cobb Wines, Sonoma Coast, CA: Two Vineyards, Four Vintages
When we are children, we don't necessarily comprehend what our parents do for fun, and when we do, we rarely approve. As a teenager, As a teenager, the view from Ross Cobb's room included a few dozen Pinot Noir vines that his father, David Cobb, a marine biologist and environmental scientist, had planted in the backyard of their Mill Valley home. Show More Summary
Vinography Images: Night Harvest
Night Harvest
HEALDSBURG, CA: Several ripe (or overripe, depending on your point of view) clusters of Pinot Noir grapes are seen prior to their harvest in this early morning Russian River Valley photo. Picking crews are working through...Show More Summary
Icons of New World Pinot Noir: Hanzell and Adelsheim
The chip on the shoulder of New World Pinot Noir wears the nametag "history." The foundations of European faith in this concept of terroir rest in a bedrock of literally thousands of years filled with trial and error by monks, peasants, and noblemen - each seeking the right place to grow the right grape. Show More Summary
Tasting Notes from the 2012 International Pinot Noir Celebration
The International Pinot Noir Celebration is perhaps my favorite tasting event that I attend each year here in the U.S. Held on the bucolic grounds of a small college in a little town in Oregon's Willamette Valley, the event always manages to get just about everything right. Show More Summary
A Walk Through the Cote de Nuits with Allen Meadows
As some of you know, I spent last week at the (always) fabulous International Pinot Noir Celebration in Oregon's Willamette Valley. Apart from my responsibilities hosting a tasting, I attended events like everyone else, including the...Show More Summary
The Life and Wines of Jacques Lardiere
As some of you who follow my adventures on Twitter know, I'm spending the weekend at the International Pinot Noir Celebration in Oregon's Willamette Valley. I attend this event periodically as a media guest, and enjoy the event's relaxed...Show More Summary