* March 26 – Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer ( b. 1704 )

* February 12 – Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer ( d. 1772 )

The French Etablissement National Technique pour l ’ Amelioration de la Viticulture ( ENTAV ) has set up a programme to select the best clones of Pinot.

In August 2007, French researchers announced the sequencing of the genome of Pinot noir.

Austrian Pinot noir wines are dry red wines similar in character to the red wines of Burgundy, mostly aged in French barriques.

Charles Pinot ( or Pineau ) Duclos ( 12 February 1704 – 26 March 1772 ) was a French author.

* Jacobi ( grape ), another name for he French / German wine grape Pinot Noir Précoce

Pinot Meunier was first mentioned in the 16th century, and gets its name and synonyms ( French Meunier and German Müller-both meaning miller ) from flour-like dusty white down on the underside of its leaves.

* Pinot simple flic, a 1984 French film with Gérard Jugnot

* Thibaut Pinot ( born 1990 ), a French professional road bicycle racer

* Pinot noir, a French wine

* Saint Jacques ( grape ), another name for the French / German wine grape Pinot Noir Précoce

This confusion between Pinot blanc and Chardonnay was very pervasive throughout northern Italy, where the two vines grew interspersed in the vineyard and were blended in winemaking.

In the Middle Ages, the nobility and church of northeast France grew some form of Pinot in favoured plots, while peasants grew a large amount of the much more productive, but otherwise distinctly inferior, Gouais Blanc.

This happened despite the fact that Chardonnay grapes get more golden yellow in color close to harvest time and can be visually distinguished from Pinot blanc.

The general DNA profiles of both Pinot gris and blanc are identical to Pinot noir ; and other Pinots, Pinot moure and Pinot teinturier, are also genetically similarly close.

It is a chimeric mutation of Pinot: its inner cell layers are composed of a Pinot genotype which is close to Pinot noir or Pinot gris ; the outer, epidermal, layer is however made up of a mutant, distinctive, genotype.

Bruce selected his vineyard site because of its proximity to Martin Ray and with the belief that the high elevation and mesoclimate of the area would be well suited for growing the Burgundian wine grapes of Pinot noir and Chardonnay.

Having been widely grown in proximity to Pinot, the two varieties had many opportunities to cross.

Modern DNA fingerprinting research at University of California, Davis, now suggests that Chardonnay is the result of a cross between the Pinot and Gouais Blanc ( Heunisch ) grape varieties.

Gamay noir is now known to be a cross of Pinot noir and the ancient white variety Gouais, the latter a Central European variety that was probably introduced to northeastern France by the Romans.

DNA analysis has revealed Melon de Bourgogne to be a cross between Pinot blanc and Gouais blanc.

Due to some ampelographical similarities, Pinot Blanc and Chardonnay were often mistaken for each other and even today share many of the same synonyms.

The most visible of these can be observed as the grapes are ripening, with Chardonnay grapes taking on a more golden-green color than Pinot Blanc grapes.

A similar situation occurred in France, with the two vines being commonly confused until the mid 19th century, when ampelographers began combing through the vineyards of Chablis and Burgundy, identifying the true Chardonnay and weeding out the Pinot Blanc.

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Chardonnay has a long history in Italy but for a large part of it, the grape was commonly confused with Pinot blanc — often with both varieties inter planted in the same vineyard and blended together.

On average, Champagne is responsible for about 8 % of worldwide sparkling wine production with many other regions emulating the " Champagne style " in both grapes used ( generally Chardonnay, Pinot noir and Pinot Meunier ) and production methods — sometimes referred to as the " Champagne method ".

Pinot noir is also used in the production of Champagne ( usually along with Chardonnay and Pinot meunier ) and is planted in most of the world's wine growing regions for use in both still and sparkling wines.

Thus Pinot meunier is a chimera with two tissue layers of different genetic makeup, both of which contain a mutation making them non-identical to, and mutations of, Pinot noir ( as well as of any of the other colour forms of Pinot ).

It should be noted therefore that almost any given Pinot ( of whatever berry colour ) can occur as a complete mutation or as a chimera of almost any other Pinot As such, suggestions that Pinot noir is the fundamental and original form of the Pinots are both misleading and highly tendentious.

Through tissue culture, it is thus possible to separate out plants containing both the mutant ( L1 ) and non-mutant ( L2 ) genotypes, yielding a normal Pinot noir-like genotype and an unusual looking L1-genotype vine with compressed internodes and thickly clustered leaves.

The New Zealand wine industry has recently discovered Pinot Meunier for both still & sparkling wine production.

Pinot Noir is the most popular red grape in both the French-speaking and the German-speaking part, while this position is held by Merlot in the Italian-speaking part.

Confusingly, both the Pinot Noir clone Gamay Beaujolais and ' Napa Gamay ' could be labelled ' Gamay Beaujolais ', a name banned on labels from April 2007.

And while Sancerre blanc is the most widely produced style, both Sancerre rouge and a dry rosé style wine are also produced with Pinot noir.

Savannah-Chanelle Vineyards is best known for their Pinot Noir wines produced from both local and estate grapes.

Imbue's recipe is made from Pinot gris grapes and Eau de vie brandy.

Chardonnay is one of the dominant grapes in Burgundy though Pinot noir vines outnumber it by nearly a 3 to 1 ratio.

Pinot blanc grapes

The primary grapes used in the production of Champagne are Pinot noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier.

As a general rule, grapes used must be the white Chardonnay, or the dark-skinned " red wine grapes " Pinot Noir or Pinot Meunier.

It is often encountered in Champagne, where a number of houses have followed the lead of Bollinger's prestige cuvée Vieilles Vignes Françaises in introducing a cuvée made from either Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier or a blend of the two ( these being the only two black grapes permitted within the Champagne AOC appellation ).

The rosé wines of Champagne ( also known as Pink Champagne ) are produced either by leaving the clear juice of black grapes to macerate on its skins for a brief time ( known as the saigneé method ) or, more commonly, by adding a small amount of still Pinot noir red wine to the sparkling wine cuvee.

The principal grapes grown in the region include Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier.

Pinot Noir grapes

The most famous are made of Gamay, Pinot Noir and Mondeuse grapes.

The Central Otago wine area produces award winning wines made from varieties such as the Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Merlot, and Riesling grapes.

Presently, growers in the area produce Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Mission, and Syrah grapes.

Red wine grapes like Pinot noir can be used in the production of white sparkling wines because their juice is initially clear and is only later tinted red through exposure to the color pigments in grape skins.