Pinot Noir / Pinot nero / Spätburgunder

Pinot Noir / Pinot nero / Spätburgunder
A grape with a thin peal, the black wine grape for a cool climate:
Bourgogne, New Zeeland, Germany, Chili, Oregon.

Pale colour, high acidity. Cherry aroma. Ages very well.
Fades to orange quite quickly.
Cheap Bourgogne is often unpleasant: parched with high acidity.
But the Pinot Noir is also the base for the most expensive wines in the world: Top Bourgognes:
Wines which turn very delicate and subtle in taste during the aging, often on the brink of change-over.
Bordeaux lovers, which are used to strong wines, call the Bourgogne ‘flabby tea’.
In Germany the Pinot Noir is called Spätburgunder and works fantastic.
In the Ahr, one of the most northern viticulture areas, as well as in Baden, the warmest wine region in Germany.
Highly priced, because the Germans like to drink their own red wines which makes them little known in The Netherlands.
Pinot Noir is planted all over the world, but in warm countries like South Africa and Australia the grape may “pinotate”.
Aromas of burned rubber then appear.