Romanée-Conti — Pinot Country Under two hectares of Vosne-Romanée hillside, held by one owner, producing about 3,500 bottles a year. No other patch of ground in wine carries this much argument per square metre. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/vineyard/romanee-conti/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
Domaine Drouhin Oregon — Pinot Country Burgundy's answer to the 1979 tasting: the Drouhin family bought land in the Dundee Hills in 1987 and built a gravity-flow winery into the slope, with Véronique Drouhin making the wine. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/producer/domaine-drouhin-oregon/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 32K
Terroir — Pinot Country The claim that a wine tastes of where it grew — soil, slope, aspect, weather, and the habits of the people farming it. In France it is also a legal argument, because appellations are drawn on it. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/word/terroir/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 25K
Monopole — Pinot Country A named vineyard held whole by one owner. Rare in Burgundy, where inheritance splits everything, and printed on the label whenever it is true. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/word/monopole/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 26K
One film, measured — Pinot Country In October 2004 a comedy about two men on a road trip through Santa Barbara County put a speech about pinot noir into cinemas, and the American wine trade could see it in the sales figures within months. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/story/the-sideways-effect/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 27K
Tasmania — Pinot Country Australia's coldest vineyards, split between the Tamar in the north and the Coal River and Derwent in the south. Most of the pinot noir goes into sparkling base; the rest is picked ripe enough to bottle red. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/region/tasmania/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
Pommard, UCD 4 — Pinot Country The workhorse of American pinot noir before the Dijon numbers arrived, and still planted everywhere. Bigger berries, firmer structure, a darker wine than the Dijons give. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/clone/pommard-ucd4/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 26K
Stories — Pinot Country Long reads: how the grape travelled, what a vintage did, what goes on the grill. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/stories/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 26K
Négociant — Pinot Country A merchant who buys grapes, juice or finished wine, raises it in their own cellar and sells it under their own name. Half of Burgundy's output moves this way. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/word/negociant/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 26K