Pinot Blanc (or in Italy, Pinot Bianco) tends to be medium-bodied, with moderate acidity and flavors that suggest orchard fruits—think nectarines, peaches, pears). It’s far less popular than its ...

Pinot blanc gets overlooked. Known as pinot blanc in France, pinot bianco in Italy and weissburgunder in Austria and Germany, the grape is a branch on the pinot family tree. The white grape is a point ...

Though widely produced in Alsace, Italy and increasingly in Germany, Pinot Blanc is under the radar in the United States. This white grape is a mutation of Pinot Gris, which itself is a mutation of ...

Judging by the numbers, white wine lovers in the U.S. are loathe to give up their glass of Chardonnay. Last year, according to Dr. Liz Thach, MW (using Nielsen scan data), consumers snapped up ...

Girasole Vineyards, 2020 Mendocino County Pinot Blanc is an exotic white that over-delivers. It edged out the other tasty contenders in the flight because of its caliber of pinot blanc at a $15 price ...

TRAVERSE CITY — A good way to wash away the taste of 2020 is to drink it. Bonobo Winery released its 2020 Pinot Blanc earlier this month, the second of 2021 for the Old Mission Peninsula vineyard. The ...

Every once in a while, I stumble across something that shakes up my preconceived notions about the taste, style and potential of a wine. That, after all, is what fuels a wine lover — the possibility ...

IN WINE AND IN LIFE, there are stars and there are satellites. Pinot Blanc is the latter. It’s not Pinot Grigio or Sauvignon Blanc, the more-popular grapes that a couple of retailers recommended as ...

I love the wayward, polyamorous family of grapes known as Pinot. One of the reasons Pinot Noir is such a tough grape to grow is its tendency toward point mutations, in which a rogue cane appears on a ...