‘Excuse moi, Monsieur Chalet,” I said to the rotund, red-faced winemaker at the head of the table in his tasting room in the heart of France’s Burgundy wine region. The room got very quiet. The ...

Pinot Noir offers a wide range of styles, from light and elegant to bold and deeply extracted depending on where it is grown. More refined versions will feature polished tannins and flavors of cherry, ...

A French court has convicted a dozen people, from wine growers to a wine merchant, in a scheme that exported fake Pinot Noir from southwestern France to the United States, duping California-based ...

Worse than a faux pas, that embarrassing slip of the tongue, this was a case of faux Pinot involving French wine traders and local vintners that duped the Modesto winemaking empire of E. & J. Gallo.

It looks like E.&J. Gallo's headaches over the Red Bicyclette Pinot Noir scandal are far from over. On the heels of a Feb. 17 ruling in a French court that found Gallo's suppliers guilty of selling ...

This week’s Wine of the Week from Music of the Vine isn’t the best wine we’ve ever presented as a featured wine. However, there are three reasons why we like it enough to make it a Wine of the Week ...

I can just imagine the average wine drinker walking into a store, browsing around, and coming across a bottle of Burgundy. While it would be easy to bypass the bottle in search of something more ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Apparently when cheaper varieties such as merlot and shiraz from the Languedoc-Roussillon region in the south-west of France are ...

TOULOUSE, FranceTOULOUSE, France — A French court has convicted a dozen people, from wine growers to a wine merchant, in a scheme that exported fake Pinot Noir from southwestern France to the United ...

Maisons & Domaines Henriot acquires a majority stake in the winery, partially owned by the critic Robert Parker, for an undisclosed price. Beaux Frères, the respected Oregon Pinot Noir producer ...

Frescobaldi, a 700-year Tuscan dynasty, plants new roots in Oregon—acquiring Domaine Roy & Fils to bring its terroir-first ...

(Noir means black in French while gris means gray and blanc means white. To add to the confusion, ampelography (the study of grape vines) show there are six primary clonal variations: pinot noir (aka ...