It's becoming increasingly hard to find value wines from California that underpromise and overdeliver. Chalk it up to rising land & labor costs, inflation, and the overall fact that California wine ...

A note on the 2020 vintage: Smoke from summer wildfires tainted red grapes in some Sonoma County vineyards in 2020, and thin-skinned pinot noir grapes were the most vulnerable. Depending on location, ...

How can one grape taste so different? That’s the question that has been puzzling and obsessing wine lovers for centuries. The same grape grown in one place can taste completely different in another ...

With a history of grape growing reaching back to the 1870s, Sonoma’s Russian River Valley AVA has one of the longest standing traditions of winemaking in the county. Today it is home to more than 70 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Uncorking wine and spirits adventures around the world. Celebrated for its versatility and easy-to-drink nature, pinot noir has a ...

Here’s a selection of 20 award-winning Pinot Noir wines from around the world, most of which retail for under $50 and some substantially less. Pinot Noir wines are often associated with high prices, ...

Brian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel, and food writer; event host and speaker; and drinks educator. He regularly contributes to Food & Wine, and his first book, Crushed: How A Changing Climate Is ...

While Pinot Noir has flourished in California since the time of the Gold Rush, it was first planted in Oregon in 1965. Starting with Domaine Drouhin’s entrance into Oregon with the purchase of its ...

In the historically war-torn region of Alsace, Pinot Noir was considered table wine, and subsequently overlooked in the ...

Wine is all about tradition. In Northern Italy, tradition is in the 26 generations of the Antinori family, which has been making wine in Tuscany since the 1300s. In the Burgundy region of France, ...

If you love Pinot Noir but struggle with the price tags of Burgundy, which produces this famously tricky grape variety’s most celebrated expressions, today’s wines have been chosen as offering bargain ...