Pinot Noir Summit, San Rafael, February 27, 2010

The 8th Annual Pinot Noir Shootout included Pinots from around the globe, from 50 different appellations including Canada, Chile, France, Italy, Australia, and New Zealand. Stateside, California and Oregon dominate the wine submissions; however, Pinots also came in from Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Washington State.

• Unique Aspects of the Pinot Noir Shootout:
• The most comprehensive and focused tasting of Pinot Noir in the US, utilizing an incredibly diverse panel of experts.
• Just 32 wines are tasted by the experts per day (four flights of eight wines each), allowing the judges to be completely immersed, focused and fair to the wines.
• There’s no palate fatigue as a factor.
• The wines are tasted completely blind without reference to appellation, vintage or price.

The Pinot Summit allows the attendees to taste the wines blind and compare their personal findings to those of the panel’s at The Final Showdown.

• The Pinot Noir Shootout is the only competition in which the judges’ conclusions are put to the test by an unbiased panel of wine lovers.

The Pinot Noir Shootout continues to explore and assess the reactions and preferences of women versus men, in regards to Pinot Noir. Descriptors and scores of the female and male panelists will be denoted, as well as the reactions of the Pinot Noir Summit attendees, in an attempt to discover whether women and men prefer different wine styles.

8th Annual Pinot Noir Summit
Date:   February 27, 2010
Place: Osher Marin Jewish Community Center
200 N. San Pedro Road
San Rafael, CA 94903
Time:   12:00 PM -8:30 PM
Cost:   $125

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