Willakenzie Estate 2016 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir
Oregon’s wine industry growth has been notable and it’s smart for wine fans to watch their offerings. The vineyard count has roughly doubled in the past 15 years with wine […]
Category Archives: Pinot Noir
Julia’s Vineyard Pinot Noir 2016 Cambria Estate Winery Santa Maria Valley
93 Points, Michael Rockich, AppellationsTen It is said beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, but this 2016 is undeniably a beauty recently lying in the soil at Cambria […]
The Great Big Bacchanalia: a Singular Pinot Noir Happening
The Great Big Bacchanalia at the Farallon How would you like an opportunity to taste, evaluate, and focus your attention on a single wine varietal at a tasting, also a […]
Events Shaping the Wine World September 2019
RAVE Report: Evaluating Site Impacts on Pinot Noir from Different West Coast Vineyard Locations American Terroir Worth a look from earlier this year Oregon Wine Continues Its Ascent, Driven By […]
PinotFest 2018
It would not be easy to find a wine tasting pouring more high-quality Pinot Noirs than the PinotFest. Many, probably most of the producers at PinotFest make their wines in […]
Southern Hemisphere Focus, 2017
Full Circle Bevcon held a little get-together to taste wines from the Southern Hemisphere at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco on September 7. Over 200 wines were […]
PinotFest 2015
The PinotFest is an annual tasting in November of wine made from the Pinot Noir grape. The 18th annual PinotFest took place November , as it usually does, in a […]
West of West Wine Festival 2015
The fifth annual West of West Wine (WOW) Festival convened July 31 – August 2, 2015 in Sebastopol, California, with functions occurring also in Windsor and Occidental. The West Sonoma […]
Pinot on the River 2014
The 11th annual incarnation of Pinot on the River took place on Healdsburg Plaza in the Russian River Valley Sunday, October 26, 2014. The weather obliged providing a splendid sunny […]
West of West Wine Tasting 2013, Sebastopol…WOW!
When I first became aware of the WOW wine tasting I found the name quite unusual. WOW is an acronym for “west of west.” I wondered where the vineyards and […]
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