In this video, Jane Brooks Heuck, managing director of Brooks Winery, tells the secret of biodynamically crafted 2017 Riesling ($20). The Riesling was delicious and dry, with gorgeous up-front grapefruit and lemon aromatics and flavors. Also tasted the 2015 Janus Pinot Noir ($38).
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Video 4: Winemaker Katie Santora of Chehalem Winery
In this video, winemaker Katie Santora explains the philosophy of crafting pure, transparent wines at Chehalem in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. She was joined by Micelle Kaufmann, the winery’s communications director, at the Boston Pinot in the City event. We tasted the Three Vineyard Pinot Gris ($20), INOX Chardonnay ($20) and Three Vineyard Pinot Noir ($30). […]
Balletto Pinot Noir is worth the adventure
I had the good fortune of tasting several wonderful wines over the holidays, and it is with a sense of sadness I see all the decorations coming down. The parties are over… but the palate lives on! Drinking good Pinot Noir remains one of my lifelong pursuits. Finding the most sensuous, enduring taste — at […]
Four 'cool' and inviting California Pinot Noirs
Pinot Noir no longer gets shortchanged in America — and the world — for good reason: Winemakers in Oregon’s Willamette Valley and California’s Central Coast have put their stylistic stamp on this persnickety grape to popular effect. As can be expected among the two western states, the difference in terroir and climate yield varied and […]
