Duck — Pinot Country The pairing pinot noir gets asked about most: dark meat, a thick fat cap, and enough savoury weight to meet a wine with little tannin. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/pairing/duck/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 26K
Pigeage — Pinot Country Punching the cap down into the wine. The old tool is a plunger; the old method is bare legs. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/word/pigeage-term/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 25K
Spätburgunder — Pinot Country German for pinot noir, and a name that carries an argument: 'late Burgundian', against the früh — early — one that ripens weeks sooner. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/word/spatburgunder/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 26K
Neutral oak — Pinot Country A barrel that has already given up its flavour — third use, fourth, older. It still lets oxygen through the staves and still shapes texture; it just stops tasting of the forest. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/practice/neutral-oak/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 27K
Vigneron — Pinot Country A grower who makes the wine. Not a winemaker who buys fruit and not a farmer who sells it — the word insists on both halves of the job. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/word/vigneron/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 25K
Burt Williams — Pinot Country Made Williams Selyem's wine in a Forestville garage, put growers' vineyard names on the front label when nobody else bothered, then sold up and planted his own vines in Anderson Valley. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/person/burt-williams/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 25K
Champagne — Pinot Country Chalk country 150 km north-east of Paris where pinot noir is pressed off its skins within hours and comes out white. More pinot noir grows here than anywhere else in France, and almost none of it is red. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/region/champagne/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
Brett — Pinot Country Brettanomyces, a yeast that lives in old barrels and makes phenols people describe as barnyard, plaster or clove. nanobotco.github.io/pinot-noir/word/wine-fault-brett/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 26K