Love Pinot Noir? This overlooked wine region delivers elegance, freshness, and value, making it a must-try for fans of ...

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 ...

Sandy Block is VP of Beverage at Legal Sea Foods. He was the first American resident of the East Coast certified as a Master of Wine. Maybe it’s not the “next hot thing,” but Pinot Noir is inherently ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Despite the recession, Oregon wine companies with established brands and strong distribution channels say they’re doing well. Even in a bad economy, for example, high-end pinot noir ...

What began as a notion has evolved into a tradition. It is a winter rite, as each January a collective of many of the most accomplished pinot noir winemakers from the left coast of America gather to ...

New types of grapes begin either as a cross or a mutation. A horticulturist would say pinot grigio is a “spontaneous mutation” of pinot noir that just sort of happened one day. Hundreds of years ago, ...

I doubt Pinot Grigiowould have become famous had it been called Gray Pinot. The grape originated in France--where it's called Pinot Gris--as a mutation of Pinot Noir, and it never got much recognition ...