Tag: clones

Scorched Earth Winery PASK The Pinot Noir 2015 and Pinot Noir 2016 wines

Only Organic Pinot Noir from Scorched Earth Winery

 mywinepal  February 19, 2021

Pinot Noir can make such beautiful wines, with red fruit and floral scents, lighter bodied, fine tannins and medium acidity. With this, I looked forward to opening the two Pinot Noir from Scorched Earth Winery in the Okanagan Mountain Park area of Kelowna to review. Scorched Earth specializes in Pinot Noir and organically farms.  After the 2003 Okanagan forest fire,…

A selection of Pinot Noir clones (Image courtesy www.princeofpinot.com)

How Does BC Pinot Noir Express Terroir?

 mywinepal  March 31, 2016

Last year I was trying to answer the question “Are there any unique aromas and flavours in Riesling grown from a particular soil type in BC?”  Through donated bottles by BC wineries, I tasted through 35 bottles of BC Riesling, attaching my tasting notes to the geographic location of the vineyard where the grapes were sourced, and then overlaid this…