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Pacific Pinot Noir: A Comprehensive Winery Guide for Consumers and Connoisseurs
Featuring more than two hundred in-depth winery profiles, this definitive guide is the best single source of information on world-renowned pinot noirs from California and Oregon. Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of a grape variety considered by many to produce the ultimate food wine, John Winthrop Haeger offers this expanded, updated companion volume to his award-winning North American Pinot Noir. Here, with three times the number of winery profiles, he focuses exclusively on what he calls the Pacific Pinot Zone, stretching from the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon to Santa Barbara in California and extending up to thirty miles inland. An introductory essay provides an indispensable view of pinot noir in the United States―including the dramatic effect that the movie Sideways has had on its sales and production.
Pacific Pinot Noir
* Detailed descriptive tasting notes and selected vertical tastings
* At-a-glance graphics conveying information on tasting rooms, prices, and production for each winery
* Regional maps showing key viticultural areas
* Contact information for each winery
Pacific Pinot Noir
* Detailed descriptive tasting notes and selected vertical tastings
* At-a-glance graphics conveying information on tasting rooms, prices, and production for each winery
* Regional maps showing key viticultural areas
* Contact information for each winery
496 pages, Paperback
First published October 18, 2008
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February 1, 2009
This is a companion volume to Haeger’s North American Pinot Noir. This one skips the excellent history and geographic sections of his previous book, and focuses on producer profiles, and a lot of them.
The format of each profile is the same with a history of the producer, a recitation of vineyard sources, harvesting and wine-making protocals, and then anywhere from a couple to ten or so tasting notes. I found lots of good information, but plowing straight through became a bit tiresome and confusing as the stats on producer bled into the next. Mr. Haeger does his best to report the facts, but his personal palate preferences are necessarily present, and you can almost feel his pain in the descriptions of some of the wines he had to taste.
Overall, I was able to come up with a list of a dozen or so producers I had not previously tried that sounded interesting to my particular preferences (low-ish alcohol, high-ish acidity, low-ish oak influence). If even a few of these work out, this book represents good value, and, for the pinot lover .
The format of each profile is the same with a history of the producer, a recitation of vineyard sources, harvesting and wine-making protocals, and then anywhere from a couple to ten or so tasting notes. I found lots of good information, but plowing straight through became a bit tiresome and confusing as the stats on producer bled into the next. Mr. Haeger does his best to report the facts, but his personal palate preferences are necessarily present, and you can almost feel his pain in the descriptions of some of the wines he had to taste.
Overall, I was able to come up with a list of a dozen or so producers I had not previously tried that sounded interesting to my particular preferences (low-ish alcohol, high-ish acidity, low-ish oak influence). If even a few of these work out, this book represents good value, and, for the pinot lover .
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