Pinot Noir With an Umlaut

By by Eric Asimov
Published: January 11, 2010
TODAY’S word, people, is spätburgunder. Let’s say it slowly: SHPAYT-bur-GUHN-der. That’s German for pinot noir, and the time has come to say it out loud.
Trouble is, in the United States at least, hardly anybody has tasted it, much less heard of it. Most people don’t even realize that [...]