Wines made from Mondeuse noire grapes - Page 2
Discover the best wines made with Mondeuse noire as a single variety or as a blend .
More informations about the variety Mondeuse noire
Cultivated for a very long time in Savoie, it is not the black form of mondeuse blanche and Mondeuse grise is a natural mutation of mondeuse noire. According to Thierry Lacombe (I.N.R.A./Montpellier), the latter is the result of a natural intraspecific crossing between the black tressot and the white mondeuse. Mondeuse grise and Mondeuse noire are both registered in the official catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.
What are the typical flavors of the Mondeuse noire grape variety?
- Red fruitPresent in 11% of Mondeuse noire
- Black fruitPresent in 10% of Mondeuse noire
- EarthPresent in 10% of Mondeuse noire
- OakPresent in 8% of Mondeuse noire
- SpicesPresent in 5% of Mondeuse noire
- PepperPresent in 2% of Mondeuse noire
- RaspberryPresent in 2% of Mondeuse noire
- MineralityPresent in 2% of Mondeuse noire
- VioletPresent in 1% of Mondeuse noire
- FloralPresent in 1% of Mondeuse noire
- Citrus fruitPresent in 1% of Mondeuse noire
- Tree fruitPresent in 1% of Mondeuse noire
- GrapefruitPresent in 1% of Mondeuse noire
- StrawberriesPresent in 1% of Mondeuse noire
- ApplesPresent in 1% of Mondeuse noire
- Black olivePresent in 1% of Mondeuse noire
- LeatherPresent in 1% of Mondeuse noire
- CherryPresent in 1% of Mondeuse noire
- Non oakPresent in 1% of Mondeuse noire
News about the grape variety Mondeuse noire
Group of Bordeaux vignerons launches Pirate wine union
The project began life in 2019 as a Facebook group, created by Graves-based winemaker Jean-Baptiste Duquesne of Château Cazebonne. The positive reactions from both the public and fellow winemakers that followed prompted the group to pursue official recognition. ‘The idea started with me and with my friend Laurent David of Château Edmus in St-Emilion. He gave me the idea of the name “pirate”,’ Duquesne told Decanter. ‘So in December 2019, I created a Facebook group called Bordeaux Pirate to show ...
Anthony Barton: tributes paid to Bordeaux wine great
The Barton family announced yesterday (19 January), ‘We have the immense sadness to inform you that our beloved Anthony Barton passed away at the age of 91 years old.’ Known as the ‘gentleman’ of Bordeaux wine and admired for his sense of humour and charisma, Anthony Barton was also widely respected for modernising family estates Léoville Barton and Langoa Barton – the respective 1855 second and third growth châteaux in the St-Julien appellation. Barton was credited, too, with maintaining ...
Scientists find new clues to ‘billion-dollar’ vine diseases
New research on grapevine trunk diseases has shown how fungi can collaborate to attack a vine via a kind of ‘extracellular bomb’. Antioxidants may help wineries to fight back, said the international group of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Grapevine trunk diseases (GTDs) have been of growing concern to vineyard owners in recent decades. Almost 20% of the world’s vineyards were affected, said the International Organisation for Vine & Wine in 2015. A 201 ...