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Article: Many more possibilities today for Pinot Noir.(Food)(Good wine)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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Byline: Mary Ross
A Pinot Noir primer
For shoppers, Pinot Noir used to be easy. The word was Burgundy - period.
No other region combined Burgundy's terroir, operating capital and 2,000 years' coaxing - if not taming - this near-wild vine to fruit and finally, wine. If producers in other regions dared achieve the Grail of winegrowing, they kept the fact to themselves.
America changed that. In the 1950s, diplomat James Zellerbach returned from France to plant his Ambassador's Vineyard, now California's oldest Pinot Noir site. In 1979, at the French Olympiades of the Wine, Oregon's Eyrie Reserve Pinot Noir became the first American wine ...