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Pinot Noir
[ pee-noh nwahr, pee-noh; French pee-noh nwar ]
noun
- Pinot2
Pinot Noir
/ ˈpiːnəʊ nwɑː /
noun
- a variety of black grape, grown esp for wine-making
- any of the red wines made from this grape
Word History and Origins
Origin of Pinot Noir1
Word History and Origins
Origin of Pinot Noir1
Example Sentences
I’m gonna get the French onion soup and I’m gonna get a glass of Pinot Noir, and me and my boyfriend are gonna talk, hang out.
It still doesn’t match the touristic draw of either, but the spunky kid sister of the California wine countries has grown up since 2004, when Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church took their fateful stag trip into the region, declaring war on Merlot and driving Pinot Noir sales through the roof.
In the Late Middle Ages, Burgundian Pinot Noir was rapidly establishing itself as a superior variety of wine, but a series of natural and human-borne calamities threatened all that had been achieved over the past few centuries of cultivation.
According to the ordinance issued by Philip the Bold, Gamay not only threatened the livelihoods of honest vignerons who used higher-quality grapes, but also ruined Burgundy's reputation for fine Pinot Noir wines with its bitter taste and apparently harmful effects on public health.
In order to safeguard the esteemed Pinot Noir and the well-being of Philip's people, the ordinance declared, all Gamay vines were to be cut down within a month and completely uprooted by the following Easter: "ripped out, eradicated, destroyed, reduced to nought ... forever."
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