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Pinot Noir Flashcards

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Pinot noir wine making

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Varietal

Matured oak - larger formats & older barrels so more subtle = smoke, cloves

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Burgundy best sites for Pinot are

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S & se facing slopes - concentrate fruits, complex wines suitable for bottle ageing

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Bourgogne aoc style pinot

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Fresh drunk young lack flavour intensity to age
L to m body
L tannins

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Village wines style burgundy

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Well drained soils

More flavour intensity, complexity and length on finish

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Famous villages Côte d’Or

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Cote de nuits
G every chambertain aoc
Nuit Saint George aoc

Cote de beaune
Beaune aoc
Pommard aoc

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Premier & grand cru burgundy style

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Concentrated fruits red
Subtle oak smoke, clove
Evoke pronounced tertiary notes - mushroom forest floor
Complex, great ageing potential

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Carneros in Californian cooling factors

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Morning fog San Pablo bay

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Sonoma cooling factors

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Pacific Ocean breeze

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Santa Barbara county cooling factors

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Sea breezes from west and south

Pacific Ocean

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Style Californian Pinot noir

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Ripe red berries
Vanilla from oak
Best examples tertiary aromas develop

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Oregon style

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Complex fresh red fruits
Subtle oak smoke cloves
Can develop tertiary aromas in bottle

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Cooling factors Oregon

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N latitude

Exposure to Pacific Ocean

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Quality Pinot USA from places mentioned

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V good to outstanding

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Where in chile is Pinot grown

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Casablanca valley

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Cooling factors Casablanca valley

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Sea breezes
Morning fog Pacific Ocean

In Aconcagua region

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Style chile Pinot Casablanca valley

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V good

V fruity cooked strawberry

17
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Where in South Africa is Pinot grown

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Walker bay

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Cooling factors walker bay

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Atlantic Ocean
Benguela current
Cape doctor

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Areas Pinot noir grown in Australia

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Yarra valley
Morning peninsula
Both in Victoria

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Cooling factors making Pinot growing possible in Victoria

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Cool breezes southern ocean

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Style Australian Pinot

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Varies

Light and fragrant to riper cooked fruits and m tannins

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Places Pinot grown in New Zealand

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Martinborough
Marlborough
Central otago

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Central otago climate factors

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S latitude
Protected sea breezes & rain by mountains
V long sunny days & cool nights

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Style Pinot central otago

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Pronounced red fruits
M to f body
M tannins
Matured oak
May need few years in bottle to reach potential 
= nz most powerful & ripest Pinot

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