pineau

I too enjoy a bit of darts on the telly, sipping a moderately chilled pineau des charentes, with a mini-pack of dry-roasted, or perhaps a chocolate orange handy.

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At his home there was invariably a surprise, maybe an unusual wine, maybe a liqueur, or, as in this case, a pineau from the Charentes, which a vineyard owner in Jonzac had sent him.

Maigret's Revolver Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1952

The first is the franc pineau, the plant doré of Ay, producing small round grapes, with thickish skins of a bluish black tint, and sweet and refined in flavour.

Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857

The vine cultivated for the production of sparkling wines are chiefly the savagnin, or white pineau, the melon of Poligny, and the poulsard, a black variety of grape held locally in much esteem.

Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857

The prevalent white grapes are the large and small pineau blanc, the bunches of the former being of an intermediate size, broad and pyramidal in shape, and with the berries close together.

Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857

The remaining species is a white grape known as the épinette, a variety of the pineau blanc, and supposed by some to be identical with the chardonnet of

Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857

The prevalent vines in the Würzburg district are the riesling, the traminer, the elbling, and the rulander, or pineau gris.

Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857

In order that the wine may be pale in colour, the grapes, which, like those of the Champagne, are of the pineau variety, are pressed as soon as possible after the gathering; the pressure applied is, moreover, rapid and not too strong, and the must is separated forthwith from the skins and stalks.

Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857

The system of procedure is much the same as in the Champagne, and, as there, the wine is mainly the produce of the pineau noir and pineau blanc varieties of grape.

Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857

The Tonnerre vineyards are of high antiquity, and for sparkling wines the produce of the black and white pineau and the white morillon varieties of grape is had recourse to.

Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857