Really enjoy Italian Pinot Noirs. Can’t recall the vineyards off hand but have had a number that I really liked. Some of the NZ Pinots will rock it but so many just feel too fruity for my palette.

I’ve had a lot of german red wines. Saturday I had a Temprenillo from Pfalz (german region)…

Top pinot producers i Germany are: Bernhard Huber, Ziereisen, Johner, Knipser, Salwey, Bercher, duijn and others.

My favorite is Huber – beat most burgundy, american and new zealand Pinot’s- try it.

Peter from Denmark

QOTD: Only ever had California Pinot Noir

Hi there.
Indeed a non familiar kind of Pinot.
Will try some soon since we’re neihgbours i feel obliged
Answer to the question:
A very interesting Pinot is coming from the Mooi Bly vineyards in South Africa.

Cheerio….

Classico

German Pinot…very interesting, not even sure I can find that stuff???

QOTD: not sure if I have had any??

Leaving a comment, but I have nothing for the QOTD…I have started using Evernote for tasting notes so I should actually be able to answer some of Gary’s questions some day soon. 😉

Nice show.

QOTD: The best would be either the Sineann 2007 McGinlay’s Vineyard Marlborough, NZ Pinot Noir or the a Leo Hillenger Austrian Pinot Noir bottle at a tasting.

Must have green wristband…..

GV:
Howya sposed to friend-up with you via Linked-In when we have no prior business dealings and it requires your email to Link In as a friend? Oh, and the show was, of course, gouda.
thanks,
irv

GV:
Howya sposed to friend-up with you via Linked-In when we have no prior business dealings and it requires your email to Link In as a friend? Oh, and the show was, of course, gouda.
thanks,
irv

QOTD: Brigante in Fuga 1998, Pinot nero, Cascina Barrichi, Piemonte.

Jens from Copenhagen

I have to leave a comment today, coming to you from Baden, Germany 🙂

Just in the last few months I have cast off my prejudice and been trying a few Spätburgunder. One that was OK was a “2006 Philipp Kuhn ? Tradition Spätburgunder”. I wouldn’t call it earth shattering though.

OzJeff

Great show Gary. Got the Election Pack today, us in Red State Nebraska are going to be celebrating an Obama victory with some good wine. Please more Arnold impressions.

Tried Baden pinot noir for the first time two years ago at a Weingut Heitlinger tasting. I tought I was getting into a sugar incremental kabinett trocken to beerenauslese riesling comparative tasting…that turned out to be 5 reds and two whites. The reds where actually good, on the simple side but well made.

QOTD Best non french or USA pinot noir so far where two Niagara (Ontario, Canada) 2007 barrel samples from “Foreign Affair Winery” and “Organized Crime Winery”. Both are made by the same consulting winemaker and are just textbook pinots from a great vintage.

Olivier from Montreal

QOTD: I haven’t tried pinot outside of USA and France. Quite frankly ever since Sideways came out I haven’t sought out pinot noir as much in general.

QOTD: 2006 Peregrine Pinot Noir Wentworth Single Vineyard from Central Otago

Gary, get more Central Otagos at Wine Library!

QOTD: Hamilton Russell.

QOTD: None…..

Great show. I may be repeating something you already said, but Germany produces 1/3rd of the worlds Pinot Noir.

QOTD: I’ve had several German spatburgunders. My favorite was probably from Weingut Huber. I can’t remember the vintage though.

Another great non-Cali or French Pinot producer is J. Hofstatter in the Alto Adige region of Italy.

If any of you have the Parker Guide to Wine Buying, look up what he says about German Spatburgunder. I no longer have a copy, but I remember laughing my ass off. He slammed it HARD, calling it a wretched abomination, and on and on. Of course, I (nor should you) live by HIS word alone, my requirement was to produce some good German P.N. for a customer’s request (demand). I only came up with the Affenthaler monkey bottle, which was way light in color, and body, and too fruity for classic PN characteristics. I found it somewhat insipid, but the woman loved it. My girlfriend loves monkeys, so I got her a bottle for the hell of it- it was under $15. She’s no chief wino like me, and she loved it! I wrote it all off as ‘like really (over)jammy beaujolais’ and let it go at that.

As noted by another, Italian Pinot Nero is difficult too, and best applied to methode champenoise in Franciacorta. The Tuscan Pomino had virtually no ageability and went to highly astringent sourness w/ no fruit in a couple of years.
New Zealand’s Seifert and Felton Road make some good stuff, worthy of their low/mid prices.

Tarras Pinot Noir from New Zealand, it’s amazing! Seems a bit “fruit-bomby” to me but I just can’t help loving it! That’s the only pinot outside france I’ve had, apart from one pinot nero which I didn’t really like. I never like Italian wines though.

Peter Brum Vino Noire. German. Excellent pinot noir. nice and light can even drink it chilled. Great conversion wine from white to red. Great beginners red.

Good show Gary…I’m pumped for Thursday! QOTD: None…

QOTD : I am actually drinking some Omrah Pinot form Western Australia tonite. I would give it 90 pt – very good, somewhere between a new world fruity Pinot & an world Burgundian Pinot – has a little of both elements. A solid every-nite drinker

QOTD: I recently had my first german pinot-undone It was really nice. Liked the minerality.

GOBAMA!!!!