Food & Wine / Champagne Andre Bergere, Gruet Winery, Champagne Laherte Frères Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Pinot Meunier, the holy trinity of Champagne, are familiar sights in the region’s great cuvées ...

The Pinot Gris (French name) or Pinot Grigio (in Italian) or also Grauburgunder (in German) is a white wine grape variety of the species Vitis Vinifera (the common grape vine) that is thought to be a ...

In the wide world of wonderful wine drinking, chardonnay and sauvignon blanc lead the parade by far. None of the grapes reviewed in this article even make the top 20 in the world. That’s the point of ...

“I don’t like pinot grigio,” my friend said with formidable defiance when I gifted her with a bottle of pinot gris from New Zealand recently. “It’s not the same,” I replied, hoping to get her to at ...

Pinot noir has long been the king of Oregon wine, making reputations and fortunes. Yet on a trip to Oregon's Willamette Valley last year, the winemakers I met weren't talking about or initially ...

Last week I wrote a column about the allure and versatility of pinot blanc wines. I began the article by discussing how a friend had thought pinot blanc and pinot grigio were the same wine. Of course, ...

Pinot noir grapevines are prone to what plant scientists call “spontaneous mutations.” Left to their own devices, one of the vast number of pinot noir vines may spontaneously generate a cane producing ...

Science shocker: pinot grapes are an army of clones. According to DNA, pinot noir/nero, pinot gris/grigio, pinot blanc/bianco and many more pinots are mutations of the exact same grape. Members of the ...

The wine that I had tried to gift and the one that I had mistakenly said was from a different grape than pinot grigio had been sent to me by the Crawford family of wines as a sample. I love the Kim ...