10th Annual Pinot Noir Shootout & Summit
We’re Passionate About Pinot Noir!
The Pinot Noir Shootout is simply the best and most comprehensive Pinot Noir tasting in the world, exploring and assessing different styles of Pinot Noir.
Over 460 wines were entered in this, the 10th Annual Pinot Noir Shootout.
The Pinot Noir Shootout has a single varietal focus. Each of the wines is more intensely judged than in standard, broadband competitions. Great producers of Pinot Noir, submit their wines year after year.
What’s it like to be a Pinot Noir judge?
Monique Soltani of Wine Oh TV reports from the 9th Pinot Noir Summit.
Most competitions go straight to medals, our Shootouts provide concerted, then condensed reviews, providing the most thorough, quotable, consumer friendly, and accessible results in the industry from a diverse panel of experts. Male and female reviews for each wine are posted on the Affairs of the Vine website. Many of our judges write and publish their own results.
Wineries who produce great Pinot Noir enter their wines in the Pinot Noir Shootout year after year.
Wine writers, publicists, sales and marketing professionals, and the discerning public love the access to our reviews. There are over 12,000 references to The Pinot Noir Shootout on Google, 34,000+ on Yahoo, and 9500+ on Bing. Our website views numbered over 500,000 following the posting of our results – view them
We began the intense tasting process for the 10th Annual Pinot Noir Shootout in late October, 2011. Incredible producers entered their wines in this year’s competition.
In the last 10 years, we’ve tasted over 3200 Pinot Noirs in our blind tastings – never tasting more than 32 wines in a day. Great wines reveal themselves when given this kind of care and attention.
An incredible array of palates gathered to assess the best Pinot Noir from all over the world at the 10th Annual Pinot Noir Shootout finals on December 10, 2011 in San Francisco, California.
The finalists will be showcased at the 10th Pinot Noir Summit on February 25, 2012 in San Francisco. This event attracts Pinot Noir lovers from the consumer, media and trade segments.
The comments and reactions to the wines will be accessible on the Affairs of the Vine website and will be posted two weeks after the completion of the Pinot Noir Summit.
A list of the participating wineries in the 10th Annual Pinot Summit can be viewed in the right hand column on this page.
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Join us at the 10th Annual Pinot Noir Summit. 40 of the top rated Pinot Noirs will be featured in a blind tasting. Vote for your favorites. Your opinion counts!
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The 10th Pinot Noir Shootout again defines Pinot Noir styles by exploring and assessing the many wines that were tasted by our judging panel. We denote the descriptors and scores of the panelists and describe the wines as experienced by the female and male panelists in an attempt to discover whether women and men prefer different wine styles.
Affairs of the Vine conducted the Pinot Noir Shootout preliminary tastings in October and November. The final judging was conducted on Saturday, December 10, 2011 in San Francisco, California.
Wine Lovers will vote for their favorites at the Pinot Noir Showdown, the blind tasting of 40 of the top rated wines, at the 10th Pinot Noir Summit. Make sure your palate is represented.
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About Our Process
The process and manner utilized by Affairs of the Vine for assessing and judging wines is unique with competitions in that it employs the following procedures…more
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* Our judging panel is comprised of a diverse assemblage of over fifty Pinot Noir loving wine professionals: media heavy including some great wine bloggers, restaurant, retail, and winery experts.
* More judges per entry than broad-based, broadband wine competitions.
* Each judge takes copious notes on each entry and takes his detailed notes and wine information with him.
* Results and reviews that our gender based. Male and female scores and comments are detailed separately.
* The final judging by our professional panel will be held at in San Francisco on Saturday, December 10, 2011.
* Encapsulated results entice and accommodate the wine and food media.
* Educational and engaging, consumer-oriented, follow-up tasting, seminars and gala for the top wines on February 11, 2012 at the Hilton San Francisco Financial District.
* The attendees to the Pinot Noir Summit on February 11th are involved in the process of judging the wines from their perspective: a most memorable and influential experience.
Act now to be part of the process.
Results from past Pinot Noir Shootouts:
9th Annual Pinot Noir Shootout & Summit Results
8th Annual Pinot Noir Shootout & Summit Results
7th Annual Pinot Noir Shootout & Summit Results
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