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What is the French name for grape varieties whose dark wine, often in small quantities, gives colour to pale and pigment-poor red wines?
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Teinturier
Designation for dark grape varieties or so-called colouring grapes. These grapes have a red pulp, as opposed to the usually light or grey pulp of most red wine grapes. This means that the anthocyanins are not only present in the berry skins, but also inside the berries and thus also in the grape juice in larger quantities. Since the colour pigments are present in the entire plant tissue, the leaves also turn red relatively early. The majority of Färber grapes are used to produce cover wines, and only a small number of them are used to produce wines of their own variety. Such grapes became popular in France, especially from the...
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