Variety: Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir

The name is derived from the French words for "pine" and "black" alluding to the varietals' tightly clustered dark purple pine cone-shaped bunches of fruit. Pinot Noir produces an amazing contradiction in wine - something so delicate and subtle, yet powerful and mesmerizing.

Pinot Noir from France gives flavors and aromas of red fruit, summer pudding and baking spices. As the wine matures - and great Burgundies are able to do so for years - the flavors become more like the earth the wine comes from- mushrooms, truffles - and the wine gains tremendous complexity.

Newton Johnson Pinot Noir 2006, South Africa