The attack is savoury and woodsy with sour cherry, blackberries, and mushrooms that come with a density from front to back. Sourced out of the Home Block in East Kelowna, the regular edition of CedarCreek Pinot Noir checks all the boxes in 2019, but with a little less fruit and a lot more earthy undertones. The winery suggests matching their Pinot with duck confit or lamb ragout with root vegetables.ĬedarCreek Estate Pinot Noir 2019, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada herbal note that balances the wine in the finish. The fruit is equally interesting, with ripe plummy black cherry leading the way, underpinned by a savoury, scrubby B.C. I love how this organically farmed Naramata Bench Pinot from Kozier Organic Vineyard coats the palate with a silky smooth texture from front to back, thanks in part to ten months of aging in neutral oak barrels. Roche Pinot Noir Texture 2019, Naramata Bench, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada Drink or hold there is no rush to drink an excellent white wine finished under a screwcap. It is very food-friendly if you can wait for the food to get to the table. The finish is equally complex, featuring yeasty, nettle, mineral notes. The nose is a moody, smoky mix of intense juicy lime and lemon grass that spills across the palate, injecting its creamy textures with a hit of electricity.
The Dog Point style is slightly more reductive or Burgundian - less overt fruit, more complexity - giving it a different look than many Marlborough peers. Across the lake in Summerland, Haywire, Garnet Valley, Lightning Rock, Canyonview are all coming into their own. Nearby Myer Vineyards is releasing equally compelling labels, while further north in Naramata, we like the mid-valley Pinots coming out of Tightrope, Hillside, Roche, Howling Bluff, Carson, Therapy and Foxtrot.
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We like the affordable CedarCreek Estate Pinot Noir 2019 ($26.99).įurther south, Blue Mountain has a whole new series of Pinot Noirs highlighting single-vineyard blocks among its mature vines. Pinot Noir chain is the Martin’s Lane labels including but not limited to the Martin’s Lane Simes Vineyard Pinot Noir 2016 ($100) - it rivals anything on the West Coast and much of Burgundy.ĬedarCreek is another big player at all price points. Winemaker David Patterson is giving Pinot Noir the same love his Riesling gets, as evidenced by the Tantalus Pinot Noir Reserve 2018 ($65.22). Home runs begin on Vancouver Island this year, where Unsworth Vineyards Pinot Noir 2018 )$32.40), Averill Creek Somenos Pinot Noir 2018 ($52) and the Blue Grouse Vineyard Pinot Noir ($37.99) reveal the rising pedigree of the Cowichan Valley and its delicate, layered flavoured, red-fruited Pinot Noir.
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Pinot noir is a very mutable variety, so there are a lot of different clones with really different characteristics. Also in a lot of sparkling wine Pinot noir is used (e.g. Most plantings are in France, Germany, Austria, North America and northern Italy. It can be found in most of the wine growing regions of the world. Pinot noir is the most famous red wine variety of the cool climate wine regions. The differences between day and night temperatures will give Pinot noir his excellent flavour.
Pinot noir needs in cool climate regions good slopes to get really ripe, otherwise the acidity will keep to high. Spätburgunder, Blauburgunder, Klevner Requirements to the vineyard site: Pinot noir is called the king of the cool climate red wine varieties. The differnces to Pinot gris and Pinot blanc are that small, that they can only be divided by the colour of the berries.These Pinot varieties are very popular in the Burgundy region in France, from where the came to nearly every wine growing region of the world.