I present to you today the current Pinot Noirs of two very different American producers. Sonoma-based Jamie Kutch is a hopeful loner, born of the In…
4 Feb 2019 Jancis Robinson
A slightly shorter version of this round-up of delicious Pinot Noirs is published by the Financial Times. It would be a very good idea if we wine…
17 Nov 2018 Jancis Robinson
Pinot Noirs from a host of countries compared. Alex Hunt MW, he who had the good fortune to taste a decade of Lafon Montrachets recently, and who used…
15 Nov 2018 Jancis Robinson
From €14.50, £16.60 (per bottle if you buy a case of 6), $29.99 Find this wine As I mentioned in Justerini and Brooks’s Germans earlier this week,…
28 Sep 2018 Tamlyn Currin
The air was buzzing with esters, polyphenols, flavonoids, amino acids, sugars and acids at The Royal Society of Chemistry a couple of weeks ago. Not…
24 Sep 2018 Tamlyn Currin
I have attended the annual showing of the most recent vintage of Grosse Gewächse in Wiesbaden at the end of August without fail since its inception in…
18 Sep 2018 Michael Schmidt
For the context of these tasting notes – all Pinot Noir and mostly from Central Otago – see Central Otago Pinot Noir – does it age? published…
5 Sep 2018 Julia Harding MW
Two years on from my first visit to Central Otago for the Pinot Noir Celebration 2016, I was back in Queenstown at the end of January this year to…
4 Sep 2018 Julia Harding MW
From €78.90, $83.99, 899 Swedish Krone, 11,600 Japanese yen, £84.50 Find this wine You can meet the celebrated ex-sommelier and Fulbright scholar…
15 Jun 2018 Jancis Robinson
See Elaine's extremely detailed analysis of Williamette Valley AVAs and subzones, also published today. My picture is of Tony Soter, a famous Oregon…
15 May 2018 Elaine Chukan Brown Julia Harding MW
See also Elaine's tasting notes on 86 current Willamette Valley Pinots and Chardonnays.As Jancis’s recent article What will fill red burgundy’s place?…
15 May 2018 Elaine Chukan Brown
At the end of last year Jason Lett of Eyrie in the Willamette Valley and I sat down for lunch. He brought with him two bottles to taste, both a bit of…
1 May 2018 Elaine Chukan Brown
A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See tasting notes in A British assault on fine German Pinots. ‘I’m a refugee',…
21 Apr 2018 Jancis Robinson
19 April 2018 We're republishing this 2011 tasting article free to complement today's account of a much more recent British assault on fine German…
19 Apr 2018 Jancis Robinson
See also What will fill red burgundy's place?If you put Spätburgunder in our search box (choosing the 'Everything else' option), you will find a…
19 Apr 2018 Jancis Robinson
