Bainbridge Island Vineyards & Winery Pinot Noir 2009
Product Details
Your Rating
Somm Note
Winemaker Notes
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
Encompassing numerous islands in northwestern Washington from the Canadian border through the city of Seattle, the Puget Sound appellation is Washington’s only growing region located west of the Cascade Mountains.
It is the state’s coolest and wettest region. Madeleine Angevine, Siegerebbe, Muller-Thurgau and Pinot Noir are the main varieties.