Blanc de Noir

Blanc de Noir (Blanc de Noirs, literally “white from black”) is a white wine (most often we are talking about champagne), made from dark-skinned grapes, unlike wine Blanc de Blancs. Champagne these varieties can only be two: Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier.

The concept of producing white wine from black grapes may seem strange to the uninitiated, but for champagne it is quite a common practice. A large part of sparkling wine is made from a mixture of black and white varieties, mostly Chardonnay, more rarely Pinot Gris and Pinot Blanc, and very rarely – Petit méliès and arban.

Thanks to the careful pressing, in which the pigments are not squeezed out of the skins of berries, the juice becomes transparent and almost colorless.

Blanc de Noir is made from grapes southern part of the champagne region, where the terroir is more suited for dark varieties than in the North.

Among the most famous of this type of champagne: Krug Clos d Ambon (Krug Clos d’ambonnay) and Borlange Vieille Vignes française (Bollinger Vieilles Vignes Francaises), they are also among the most expensive among the champagne at all.

The first is made from Pinot Noir with surrounded by a concrete wall of plot 1 acre (0.4 hectares) in the village of Ambonnay. The second, often referred to as an abbreviation for VVF, made from ungrafted vines dofilloksernogo Pinot Noir. These vines grow on two tiny walled areas: Chaudes Ter (Terres Chaudes) and Clos Saint-Jacques (Clos Saint-Jacques). There was also a third such unique plot – Croix Rouge (Rouge Croix), but he still fell victim to phylloxera in 2005.

Great interest was aroused and champagne grower-producer of the new wave of Cedric Bouchard (Cedric Bouchard) practicing biodynamic approach. Among Blanc de Noir Cedric Bouchard, such wines as “Inflorescence Val Vilaine”, “Inflorescence La Parcelle” and “Roses de Jeanne Les Ursules”.