Henri Jayer — Pinot Country A Vosne-Romanée grower who started with a 3-hectare inheritance in the 1950s and changed how the Côte handles pinot noir — destemming, cold soak before fermentation, no filtration, clean fruit above all. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/person/henri-jayer/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 26K
Pinot blanc — Pinot Country The white end of the family. A further mutation that can come from pinot gris or pinot noir and can go back the other way, which is why nurserymen watch their mother vines. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/variety/pinot-blanc/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 28K
Santa Barbara Vintners — Pinot Country The county association that runs the tasting weekends and publishes the maps for the Santa Maria Valley, the Sta. Rita Hills and everything between. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/org/santa-barbara-vintners/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 32K
Txakoli — Basque Tables Sharp, barely fizzy white from the Basque coast, poured from a height so it opens in the glass. nanobotco.github.io/basque-tables/drink/txakoli/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 28K
Martinborough — Pinot Country A gravel terrace at the south end of the North Island, in the rain shadow of the Tararua Range, with a town laid out as a Union Jack. Small, dry, windy, and planted almost entirely to pinot noir. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/region/martinborough/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 32K
Cold soak — Pinot Country Chilling the crushed fruit and holding it below fermentation temperature for days before the yeast start. Water pulls colour and aroma out of the skins; alcohol has not arrived yet to pull tannin. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/practice/cold-soak/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 26K
Mushrooms — Pinot Country The flavour bridge: older pinot noir picks up a forest-floor smell, and a plate of fungi meets it head on. Glutamates in the mushroom read as savoury, which is the same register a mature bottle moves into. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/pairing/mushrooms/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 27K
Felton Road — Pinot Country Bannockburn, Central Otago — schist, old gold workings, and a cellar that farms organically and biodynamically and bottles its blocks separately. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/producer/felton-road/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
Rippon — Pinot Country Vines on a lake terrace at Wanaka, biodynamic, with the Southern Alps behind them — the photograph that sells Central Otago, and a family that has farmed the slope since the nineteenth century. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/producer/rippon/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 28K