Red Burgundy wines are usually made with the Pinot Noir grape, and white Burgundy wines are usually made with Chardonnay grapes, as dictated by the AOC.
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Red Burgundy
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Sumptuous and generous styles of wine that will make fantastic drinking in the coming years. Ripe yet stll fresh.
Cabernet, Red Burgundy, Bordeaux, Merlot, Shiraz, Pinot Noir, Port
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MATCHING WINE: A red Burgundy or New World Pinot Noir in the earthy style feels right for this dish. I pinch-hit successfully with a quality Beaujolais, Jean-Marc Despres 2000 Fleurie Grille Midi.
Passe-Tout-Grains:A red Burgundy made from Pinot Noir blended with Gamay.
Peak:The time when a wine tastes its best--very subjective.
Perfumed:Describes the strong, usually sweet and floral aromas found in some wines, particularly white wines.
In Burgundy there are two main wines to know: Red Burgundy (Pinot Noir) and White Burgundy (Chardonnay).
The sea that covered Burgundy receded about 70 million years ago, and the mountains to the east began to move skyward 35 million years after that.
In France, for example, red Burgundy is made from the pinot noir grape; red Bordeaux is made from cabernet sauvignon, merlot or a blend of both. In Italy, the famous wines of Chianti are made mostly from the sangiovese grape.
Varietal/Blend
Used in most red Burgundy wines. Also in the bulk of Champagne production (white and pink).
Flavour & Character
Predominantly raspberry and strawberry, with a hint of game.
Because of this, such grape-names as Cabernet Sauvignon for red Bordeaux, Sémillon and Sauvignon Blanc for Sauternes, Pinot Noir for red Burgundy and Chardonnay for white Burgundy, (etc), are now embedded in the "wine-speak" language.
A rather imprecise texture description implying delicious smoothness, classically used to describe red Burgundy and other fine Pinot Noir.
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Makes Champagne and the great red Burgundy wines. Light of color and best drunk with a good amount of age. Also planted in Germany as Spatburgunder and Italy as Pinot Nero but usually simple and light here.
(There's also a red Burgundy-"Bourgogne Rouge"-just in case you're wondering). However, the bottle won't say Chardonnay and often won't even identify itself as Bourgogne.
Burgundy: A prominent French wine region stretching from Chablis in the north to Lyons in the south; Pinot Noir is the grape for red Burgundy, Chardonnay for white.
Pinot noir is a very fussy grape to grow, so it is not as popular with growers as cabernet or merlot. However, it can make great wines - this is the primary grape behind red Burgundy from France.
Velvety
Smooth, subtle, rich and harmonious, with no edge of harshness. An imprecise texture description that implies delicious smoothness, typically used to describe red Burgundy and fine Pinot Noir.
Though this wine hails from California (specifically, Carneros in Napa Valley), it is more 'old world' in style - one of the few American Pinot Noirs that remind me of red Burgundy.
mask poor wine or to give more complexity to wine, these wine are not necessarily superior or inferior to single-grape wines. Some of the most famous wines, such as bordeaux and champagne, are blends. Well-known unblended wines include red burgundy ...
summer, wild mushrooms of the season, duck or pork confit and sometimes foie gras and fresh truffles." Why? "The natural slight sweetness of the vegetables, the earthy mushrooms and pork or duck flavors bring out all that is good about red Burgundy." ...
And Pinot Noir reaches its zenith in red Burgundy, making exotic, perfumed red wines commonly with hints of undergrowth or mushrooms.
" Pinot Noir Grape variety used in the production of all red Burgundy wines.
 See also: Red, Burgundy, Pinot, White, Pinot noir
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