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Date: Oct 15, 2026

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World of Pinots
10/15/26

1 Santa Barbara Pinot France the B Side
Oct 22 2026

1 Alsace Gewurts

2 Chard

3 Domaine Savenn

4 Bonhom Loire Valley

 

Second set

5 JL Chave St Joe

6 Cuvée Composite

7 DomaineJurancon

Tonight we are doing Alscase
Lorraime Region wine regions.

Many to,es im a generation the controlling power has changed with each generation

Last plague in the 1300 they lost half the people.

Then the 100 years war again.

1600 50,000 witch trials
The expansion of Vinyards took place with the population drop.

Alsace is one few regions that lists the grape on the label.

Gewurtz is an Italian Grape

Gewurtz goes with Pigs, rabbits, Root Vegs
It is grown on the East side of the mountain s. North of the Alsace is the falseth

A lot of white grapes Pinot Griis

Wine 2

It can breathe for ten days and still change.

It's oily almost like a sherry.

Lemon and dried apple taste, Nut Almond. Chalk taste, Walnut taste.

There yeasts are unique that let oxygen in

Elinor of Octytaine got her marriage annulled

Bordeaux created a port of exchange

Wine 3 is a Chenin Blanc can reach 15% alcohol

Pairing with goat cheese oysters, Lemon se]queeze Fish

E I hate Chenin Blanc but this is pretty good

Nicolas's Shovie Read books from, the Granfather of Biodynamics and chose not to fertilize and changed his principals of crop production

He would use a tunning fork to calibrate his barrels

 

Wine 4
Loire valley Cab Franc

SECOND SET

Southern France is the Butter/Olive oil line

Robson & Meksan and one red grape Syrah

 

 

A knight from a mission created Hermitage

The river south of Bordeaux

Before the 100 year war it added Malbec it had a 1000 names

Malbec would not root graph so it was held back It produces im Argentina''Chile went with Carberuare

 

Malbec is k

  1. French

  2. French

  3. French

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  1. Dundee Hills OR

  2. Santa Cruz CA

  3. Tricked Germany

15 people im attendance.
Doug was the wine buyer at North Loop wine & Spirits he would taste 2K to 3K

20% off all wine in the shop
Pinot Noir is one of the most complex wines there is and affected by the Terroir more than any others wine.

Doug played Sideways Movie about Santa Barbara Pinot Noir

White Pinot Gris And Pinot BBlanc Alegomez

 

Wine 1 100% new oak. Giving he wine a Vanilla Oak flavour.

Wine 2 was a Chardonnay. From FRancec

400 Clovis ran France
800 Charlemagne was put in charge.

Charlemagne drank Red wine and it turned his beard Red.

When Charlemagne died he had three sons and he broke Europe up into FRance, German and Burgandy'

A group of monks in 1000s broke from the Benedictines called the Esturstans

They. Planted the escarpments
3,000 producers on the Sone River. In 20 miles wine is $900 a bottle it has been in the 700s.

The com of the escarpment varies with good and bad years

Wine 3 taste would stay with you for 30 seconds. Try use neutral Oak (used for a year)

1400s The Dukes of Burgundy came to power. Philips the Bold created Gamay. Noir is 1000 years old Cab Sav is 400 years old.

From Noir came Pinot Gris, Chardonnay And Gamay

Anyone that grey Gamay were killed. Gamay grew like Crazy and the lower classes loved it.

Wine 4
A bojalie

In the 2008 with the Banking crisis people were not buying $900/mottle wine. So people went to Boujellae wine for cheaper

Napolean he created inheritance law. Instead of the first child inherits all all the kids would get a portion.
You might own 3 vines.

Second Set

Willamette Columbus Day storm in 1962 a storm came through Williamette and blew down all the trees, apple, nut, etc

So the locals switched to grapes.

David Let grew his Williamette grapes with no chemicals After getting a degree from UC Davis

In 1979 Becky Talked David to enter the FRench wine competition

Josphef Nueron a large winery owner

In 1976 the Chardonnays won a Paris wine competition

The US & French send there KIds back and forth to educate in the other country.

Whole stem versus berry fermentation .

Which part of Williamette hills.

100 different types of Pinot Noir grapes

Davis has many Pinot Clones

And the Swiss has a clone place.

Acid yellow line, green line days, Sugar is the red line.
German is the third largest Pinot Noir producer

Across from Alsace is Fausta

 

 

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