Key Grapes & Regions

Grape Characteristics Grape Profile

Pinot Noir
Black grape with thin skin Pale to Medium in colour

Requires cool to moderate

climate to grow good qaulity
grapes
If climmate to warm looses
freshness and tastes of cooked
fruit
Prone to Rot and disease
High Acidity
Low to Meduim Tannins
Red fruit flavour, Strawberry,
Raseberry, Red Cherry
Range between fresh and cooked
depending on ripeness

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 France-Burgundy/Climate
Pinot Noir Cool in the North & Moderate in
the South
France
Best suited for moderate areas
where it can fully ripen
Tiny changes in the vineyard
change the qaulity of the wines
Best sites are on south, south east
facing slopes that benefit from
extra sunlight
Able to produce concentrated
complex wines
Burgundy AOC
Bougogne AOC -Typically light to
med bodied, low tannins and high
acidity ment to be drank young
and fresh as they lack the flavour
intensity to age.
Village Wines-Typically better
situated. They offer more flavour
intensity, complexity and length
on the finish. Most famous Villages
are in Côte-d'Or, Gever-
Chambertin and Nuits-Saint-
Georges are in Côte de Nuits and
Pommard in Côte de Beaune.
Premier cru and Grand cru - Most
complex and intense wines.
Commenly found on slopes facing
south or south east.
Concentrated flavours
(Strawberry, Red Cherry) and
subtle oak aromas(cloves,
smoke).
Evolve Pronounced tertiary
floavours(forrest floor,
mushroom) in the bottle

USA PINOT
NOIR
Much of California is too warm for
Pinot Noir yet there is a small number
of regions close to the coast that
good or outsanding examples of Pinot
Noir
Best sites are located in Côte-d'Or,
this is diveded into two halves
Nothern- Côte de Nuits(Night
Slope)
Southern-Côte de Beaune(Golden
Slope)
Carneros/Moderate Climate Sonoma/Cool Climate
Cooled by morning fogs from San
Cooled by Pacific Ocean Breeze
Pablo Bay
Red Fruit(red plum, raspberry,
Red fruit (cherry, raspberry)
mocha, and caramel)
Tertiary Forest floor and
Medium Tannins mushrooms. and vanilla when
aged in new french oak
High Acidity Meduim Acidity
Light to Medium Body Meduim Tannins
Long finish Dry, light- to medium-bodied
 Santa Babara County/Cool Climate Oregon/Cool Climate

Cooled by sea breezes Due to Northerly Latitude

Ripe Red Fruit(Red Cherry

Red fruit (cherry, raspberry)
Strawberry)

Medium Tannins Meduim Tannins

High Acidity Meduim Acidity

Medium Body Meduim Body

Long Finish Long Finish

Casablanca Valley

CHILE
Cooled by sea breezes and
morning fog
Ripe Red Fruit(Cooked

PINOT NOIR Strawberries)

Medium Tannins
Pinot Noir rarely inexpensivr, Chile
High Acidity
wines can offer good value for money

Medium Body

Meduim Finish
SOUTH
Walker Bay/Cool Climate

Cooled by sea breezes

Red Fruit(Cranberries

AFRICA Strawberry)
Medium Tannins
High Acidity

PINOT NOIR Medium to full Body

Long Finish

Yarra Valley Mornington Peninsula

AUSTRALIA
Cooled by Southern Ocean
Cooled by Southern Ocean Breeze
Breezes

Red fruit Red fruit

PINOT NOIR Medium Tannins Meduim Tannins

Overall climate of Australia is to warm
for pinot noir tough moderate even High Acidity High Acidity
cool climates do exist

Light to Medium Body Light to Medium Body

Meduim Finish Meduim Finish

 Martinborough/Cool to Moderate Marlborough/Cool to Moderate
climate climate

NEW
Cooled by Sea Breezes & Ring of Cooled by Sea Breezes & Ring of
Mountains Mountains

Red Fruit Red Fruit

ZEALAND Low Tannins Low Tannins

Pinot Noir is the premier black grape
High Acidity High Acidity

PINOT NOIR
of the region

Light to Medium Body Light to Medium Body

Medium finish Medium finish

Central Otago/Cool to Moderate

climate

Cooled by Sea Breezes & Ring of

Mountains

Ripe Red Fruit

Medium Tannins

High Acidity

Medium to full Body

Long Finish