I’m off to St. Helena today to help a grad student at UCD complete a research project on wine sensory evaluation. Happily, it looks like the event will be more fun than work. We’ll be blind tasting, making notes and rating 20 commercial pinots at CIA Greystone, and I believe that afterwards participants will be given the results of the evaluations. I’ll post them here when and if I get them (assuming of course that I’m allowed to share).
In other pinot news, Dr. Vino has a nice write up of John Haeger’s wonderful book North American Pinot Noir. Haeger’s section on the various Pinot noir clones is worth the price of admission in and of itself.
And if the macro view of North America isn’t enough (or if it seems like too much for you), I highly recommend A Wine Journey along the Russian River
Glad you also liked the book! I agree, the Heimoff one is also a good read.