Top 10: Canadian Pinot Noir

By: Geoffrey Moss MW

From coast to coast, this is the top Pinot Noir that's crossed our desk this year

Top Ten

Few grape varieties thrive across Canada, from coast to coast, like pinot noir.

This list features our top scoring Canadian pinots tasted so far this year. (We've included just one wine per producer.) It's an impressive list, that takes you from Niagara across to the Okanagan and Similkameen through to the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island. A very pinot-friendly 2022 growing season helped producers take many of these wines to another level, and the best is certainly to come for this ageworthy vintage.

94/100Mason Vineyard The Matriarch Pinot Noir 2022Twenty Mile Bench, Niagara Peninsula, Ontario, Canada

94/100Blue Mountain Pinot Noir Single Vineyard Block 14 Gravel Force 2022Okanagan Falls, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada

93/100Spearhead Pinot Noir Saddle Block 2022East Kelowna Slopes, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada

92/100Liber Estates Rebil Pinot Noir 2021Cawston, Similkameen Valley, British Columbia, Canada

92/1001 Mill Road Pinot Noir Home Block 2022Naramata Bench, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada

92/100Vig Clone Len's Cuvée Pinot Noir 2020Naramata Bench, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada

92/100Code Wines Pinot Noir Cone Collection Ancestor 01 2020Okanagan Falls, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada

92/100Unsworth Vineyards Pinot Noir Saison Vineyards 2021Cowichan Valley, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

91/100Meyer Family Vineyards Pinot Noir McLean Creek Road Vineyard 2022Okanagan Falls, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada

91/100Garnet Valley Ranch Pinot Noir 2022Garnet Valley, Summerland Bench, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada

Written By:

Geoffrey Moss MW

Geoffrey Moss MW, a wine reviewer/critic and contributor at Gismondi on Wine, earned his Master of Wine in August 2020. Born in Ontario, with a degree from McGill University in Political Science, Moss' resume includes working for premium brands, including with Don Triggs and family at Culmina Estate Winery, and then as part of the team for the ambitious, 100-million-dollar Phantom Creek Estates project, seeing its brand and winery emerge from scratch to full realization. Moss opened Lithica Wine Marketing in 2019. He runs his wine consulting business from Penticton, British Columbia, in the heart of the Okanagan Valley.