Blanc de Noir - the misleading of beginners!

Bild: Blanc de Noir close-up Blog Beitrag Juli 2023 Weingut Graf von Weyher
It should really be obvious. White wine is made from light grapes, and red wine from dark grapes. It's as simple as that. Or so you think. But then you stumble across Blanc de Noir. Literally "white from black" (the French exaggerated a little). It looks like a white wine, but is made from dark grapes. Great confusion! How is that supposed to work?
Anyone who reads our newsletter (and is therefore well informed) can now sit back, smile smugly, sip a glass of Blanc de Noir and say that this is not such a rare phenomenon. In fact, champagne is also made predominantly from dark grapes. But how?
The color of the wine depends crucially on the skin of the grapes and not on the pulp. It is therefore entirely possible to make a white wine from a red grape. The winemaker just has to remove the grape skin from the process early enough so that it cannot release its coloring matter into the juice.
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Our Blanc de Noir, which is made from Pinot Noir, is wonderfully drinkable and is therefore awarded a bright orange cap. This means our customers can recognize our sweeter wines from a distance. Its taste is mild with intense, fruity notes. No wonder it is one of our bestsellers, was awarded the gold prize at the DLG Federal Wine Awards 2020 & 2021 and received excellent marks in the Vinum Wine Guide 2022.
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Photo: Pinot Noir grapes in our vineyards 18.07.2023
Otherwise, it is oh, so hot here and it hardly rains. With a heavy heart, we decided to start watering with tankers - up to now, this has only been necessary very rarely! A tanker holds 2,000 liters ... and we fill it 5 times a day! But that is just a drop in the ocean (in the truest sense of the word), although we do not water all of the vineyards. Only the vines that are younger than 5 years old and those that are on particularly hard soil (such as granite and slate) are sprinkled with the precious liquid. The older vines are doing surprisingly well, as their roots can easily reach up to 100 meters deep.
Last year we cut back the young vines of Pinot Gris and Sauvignon Blanc so that the tender plants would not exhaust themselves and die. This decision was the right one, as all the vines survived the drought. This year, with a heavy heart, we will again have to cut back the green grapes on around one hectare so that the plants can concentrate fully on developing deep roots.
The last wines from the 2022 harvest are now being bottled in the cellar (Blanc de Noir, Pinot Blanc, Rieslings). After that, the big cellar cleaning begins in preparation for the new 2023 harvest!
And just like that, our Kristine became a film star! First the regional newspaper Rhineland-Palatinate published a report about Kristine, then SWR came calling. The report explains how Kristine came to the southern Palatinate via Canada and the world, and why she stayed here to enchant the winery with international Palatinate dishes. (Yes, of course love plays a role... but more about that in the film!).
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