Parker Review of CA Pinot Noir

I for one don't think so.

But if you step back to a very long and inclusive focus -- embracing not only this moment and this issue, but its contexts in history and geography -- you compare several hundred CA land parcels producing the wine grape variety -- which sounds like many, by itself -- to 20 thousand ? in Burgundy -- and even further, even think back some years to when there were only a couple hundred of them in CA vs. 45724 wine grape parcels at 2.3 acres average, altogether in Burgundy, 1978, not all PN of course, and you begin to see why people use Burgundian language so much in appreciating Pinots from other lands. There lies the home and the history and source of most of the fine Pinots consumed in our lifetimes.

That is a helpful tasting note. I have not tried any from the last couple of vintages but I've enjoyed Testarossa from California (and I was noticing the things in it that seemed Burgundian, because Burgundy pinots are most familiar to me, as to many people in the world, including wine writers). The winemaker from then is something of a Pinot expert and does know Burgundies very well.