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The 2nd annual Pinot Days was held in San Francisco's Fort Mason Event Center, June 23-24. Organizers Steve and Lisa Rigisich and Eric and Teri White continue to tweak this event, making it one of the must-attend Pinot Noir festivals during the year. Plans for next year include the annual event here in San Francisco, as well as one in New York and another in Seattle.
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festivities began on Saturday with a series of sit-down blind tastings. This involved a tasting of sixteen of the best producers from the Russian River and Sonoma Coast appellations, giving us the opportunity to study them side-by-side, and was followed by a look at the wines of Pisoni, Garys' and Rosella's vineyards. After the wines were unmasked, the winemakers were asked to say a few words about the wine's production. Sunday consisted of smaller regional or vineyard-specific tastings, followed by the centerpeice of the day, the Grand Tasting, with wines from 140 Pinot producers from California, Oregon, New Zealand
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