Pinot Meunier
meunier, schwarzriesling
Pinot meunier, pronounced [pi.no mø.nje], also known as meunier or schwarzriesling, is a variety of red wine grape most noted for being one of the three main varieties used in the production of champagne (the other two are the red variety pinot noir and the white chardonnay). until recently, producers in champagne generally did not acknowledge pinot meunier, preferring to emphasise the use of the other noble varieties, but now pinot meunier is gaining recognition for the body and richness it contributes to champagne. pinot meunier is approximately one-third of all the grapes planted in champagne. it is a chimeric mutation of pinot: its inner cell layers are composed of a pinot genotype wh...
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