{"id":412,"count":3,"description":"Pinot Noir is the most romanticized red wine in the world. No other grape inspires such emotion and worship among wine enthusiasts. Festivals are thrown every year in the grape\u2019s honor and an entire movie,\u00a0Sideways<\/a>, highlighted the fervor of its fans and helped boost the variety\u2019s popularity.\r\n\r\nPinot Noir is a thin-skinned grape variety that is native to Burgundy, France.\u00a0\u00a0Pinot Noir wines are light to medium body and range in style from light and fruity to complex with aging capability. Pinot Noir is\u00a0produced around the world<\/a>\u00a0despite being notoriously difficult to grow.\u00a0In France, Pinot Noir is labelled by the region in which it is grown, like Burgundy (or Bourgogne). It is also a key variety in Champagne. Pinot Noir is native to the\u00a0Burgundy region of France<\/a>, and it\u2019s there where the world\u2019s most prized bottles are still produced. As is customary in France, producers do not label their bottles with the name of the grape variety and instead list the region, in this case Burgundy. Burgundian Pinot Noir has flavors of ripe red berries, sweet black cherries, mushrooms, and \u201cforest floor,\u201d a descriptor sommeliers use in reference to the\u00a0 smell of damp, fallen leaves. Outside of Burgundy, Pinot Noir is grown in several areas of France. In\u00a0Champagne<\/a>, it is one of the three most commonly grown grapes of the region\u2019s\u00a0seven permitted varieties<\/a>. Pinot Noir increases the structure and character of\u00a0brut\u00a0blends, and is also used as the main variety in\u00a0Blancs de Noir<\/a>\u00a0wines (white sparkling wine made exclusively with red grapes). Pinot Noir is also grown in the Loire Valley, where it appears in red or ros\u00e9 Sancerre, and is the only red grape permitted in Alsace.\u00a0In the United States, both\u00a0California<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Oregon<\/a>\u00a0produce exceptional and elegant Pinot Noir.\u00a0 In Sonoma, the cool and foggy Russian River Valley accounts for one-fifth of the state\u2019s plantings. Oregon\u2019s Willamette Valley sits on the same latitude as Burgundy and enjoys a similar climate plus cooling breezes from the Pacific Ocean, making it the perfect spot for Pinot Noir.\u00a0 Elsewhere, Pinot Noir is the most planted red grape in\u00a0Germany<\/a>\u00a0where it\u2019s labelled Sp\u00e4tburgunder and responds well to barrel aging. Pinot Noir is also the flagship red variety in\u00a0New Zealand<\/a>\u00a0where it produces vibrant, fruit-focused expressions. In recent years, producers in Chile have found that Pinot Noir is well suited to cool sub-regions like Casablanca and Bio Bio. Styles can vary from earthy and old-world to plush and fruity, which is more typical of a New-World expression.\u00a0Pinot Noir\u2019s light body, complex structure, and elegant tannins make it a great wine to pair with\u00a0all types of food<\/a>. For fruit-forward versions \u2014 those that typically come from warmer climates \u2014 opt for fatty fish or seafood like scallops, lobster, or shrimp. Pinot Noir is a great option to pair alongside veggie inspired dishes, too, try roasted heirloom carrots or caramelized cauliflower steak, both of which can stand up to the wine\u2019s elegance. For meat dishes,\u00a0beef bourguignon<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0coq au vin<\/a>\u00a0serve as the most traditional pairings, while the gamey flavors of duck, rabbit, or quail also work well with Pinot Noir\u2019s earthy character.","link":"https:\/\/sofiawinewalk.com\/en\/product-category\/sparkling-wines\/pinot-noir-en\/","name":"Pinot Noir","slug":"pinot-noir-en","taxonomy":"product_cat","parent":461,"meta":{"product_count_product_cat":["2"],"display_type":[""],"thumbnail_id":["0"],"rank_math_focus_keyword":["Pinot Noir"],"class_level":[""],"class_category":[""],"class_description":[""]},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofiawinewalk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofiawinewalk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofiawinewalk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/product_cat"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofiawinewalk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/461"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofiawinewalk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?product_cat=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}