This popular red grape originated in Burgundy but has spread across the New World. Like its white Burgundian counterpart Chardonnay, Pinot Noir is early-budding, early-ripening and thin-skinned. The ...

Is Pinot Noir “a good wine”? The answer is a resounding “absolutely ... sometimes also fermented in oak), which adds to overhead; the best new French oak barrels can range from $900 to a few thousand.

Approximately 35% of the barrels were new French oak ... coax such a sense of place and 'pinosity' from American Pinot Noir." The wine retails for $70 and is typically available only by allocation ...

This is a savory expression of Russian River Valley Pinot Noir, with star ... from five individual barrels of old-vines Pinot. It’s a loamy, earth-driven wine whose meaty bass notes find ...

While Pinot Noir has flourished in California ... Only 426 cases were produced. This wine is aged for 13 months in French oak and just about half of the barrels are used for the first time.

(New oak barrels don’t come cheap ... a thoroughly pleasant Pinot Noir. 2023 Markus Altenburger Vom Kalk Blaufränkisch, $24Winemaker Markus Altenburger sent me this wine’s technical sheet, featuring ...

Cabernet Sauvignon may be the world’s most popular red wine, but Pinot Noir and Merlot have long ... fermented with native yeasts, and aged in barrel (20% new), the bottling offers high-toned ...

Chief winemaker Brendan Hawker says: This wine epitomises time, place and effort in the purest of forms. Carefully and intentionally barrel selected from seven different parcels of pinot noir, the ...

Oak barrels allow ... subtle influence on wine than American oak and imparts elegant flavors of vanilla and spice, and thus is preferred for lighter wines—pinot noir and chardonnay.