We continue our week devoted to Pinot Noir with an Australian specialist in this capricious variety, Nick Farr of Geelong, son of Gary Farr who initially made wine at nearby Bannockburn. There is...

This is a prelude to Julia's and Richard's notes on an array of new releases of NZ wines recently shown in London. An octet of Martinborough Pinot Noir producers strode confidently into London...

This tasting of 31 Pinot Noir wines was organised by the UK's Awin Barratt Siegel (ABS) Wine Agencies to showcase their current range of German Spätburgunders in the wake of some increasingly...

From $21.99, £24.99, ¥3,870, NZ$70.40 Find these wines Americans who like funky, mature Pinot Noir with more than a hint of Armand Rousseau about them should seize this bargain...

See new lower UK price! From £14.99, NZ$34.99, HK$248, Aus$44.95 Find this wine Of course it is well known that Central Otago, the far south of New Zealand's South...

See also Revelling in Pinot and this video . Friday morning was great fun. Ten of us tasted blind 39 Pinot Noirs, almost half from Germany (a Schumacher Herxheimer 2009 failed to arrive),...

From £7.99 Find Barda Pinot Noir 2009 Find Plunkett Fowles, Blackwood Ridge Pinot Noir 2008 Find Plunkett Fowles wines in general Bargain...

From £15.95, $49.99 Find Rippon wines All this week Monty Waldin has been treating Purple pagers to a welter of technical detail about current wine production in New Zealand...

Of all the varieties, Pinot Noir and Riesling seem to inspire particular fervour. Two recent London tastings, both blind, emphasised exactly that: the Stonier International Pinot Noir Tasting and...

See full tasting notes and scores for all these wines. After its starring role in the movie Sideways , the Pinot Noir grape is now almost boringly mainstream, apparently. The world's...

Last week I had the huge pleasure of taking part in an enormously revealing blind tasting at Hardy's wine bar in Dorset Street, London W1 - flights of Pinot Noirs from some of the best sources...

The Austrians are at it again. They have held several significant blind comparisons of their own top wines with similar wines from elsewhere and 'won' every time. See, for example, Grüner...

From Au$47 Find this wine Last week my bloodstream was replaced by a stream of 2008 burgundy in my veins. (We are just about to publish more than 1,350 tasting notes on...

Good things are worth waiting for, aren't they? I certainly hope so, for below are the 48 tasting notes I took on my blackberry at the evening walk-round tasting of this year's IPNC in Oregon...

Wolfgang Hehle was a tax consultant and a beer drinker when he married Helle Cossmann in the 1970s. Her father owned and ran Weingut Deutzerhof, and it didn’t take long for Wolfgang to start...