Pinots

Their 2008 vintage will be much more typical of a cool region pinot, revealing more of what you can expect year to year -- a lighter, racier wine that may not win over those looking for big fruit-forward pinots. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Those pinots are the oldest and truest wine love I have. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The combination of young vines and a hot year seems to have made a once in a lifetime wine that stands up well to many California pinots, though it's definitely not Burgundian in style. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Last night a group of Finger Lakes winemakers brought their own 2007 pinots together to find out how the vintage is showing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The most widely distributed of the winery's pinots, it's available at several restaurants on Long Island and in Manhattan, including Bobby Van's, Hearth, Le Cirque, Sparks Steakhouse and Veritas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This experience has repeated itself with a few pinots I've had from the West Coast and Burgundy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We watched the two chefs fire up the grills, and were the happy recipients of their "dueling grill" cook-off, which included home cured bacon-wrapped scallops, grilled prawns, spicy sausages, and grilled artichokes, accompanied by warm lentil salad with pancetta and duck leg confit, stuffed pasilla chiles and Santa Maria baked beans -- all washed down with rosés, chardonnays, pinots and syrahs of local vineyards such as D'Alfonso-Curran Wines and Hartley Ostini Hitching Post Wines. ❋ Jennifer Evans Gardner (2011)

As we started to wind down with the pinots and I was pondering what I wanted to drink the rest of the evening, I opened this Chiroubles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These are at best light style wines that are closer to Gamay or ersatz village pinots. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We watched the two chefs fire up the grills, and were the happy recipients of their "dueling grill" cook-off, which included home cured bacon-wrapped scallops, grilled prawns, spicy sausages, and grilled artichokes, accompanied by warm lentil salad with pancetta and duck leg confit, stuffed pasilla chiles and Santa Maria baked beans -- all washed down with rosés, chardonnays, pinots and syrahs of local vineyards such as D'Alfonso-Curran Wines and Hartley Ostini Hitching Post Wines. ❋ Jennifer Evans Gardner (2011)