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Similar to the light wine of the Middle Ages that was exported to England, also called "vinum clarum" and "vin clar" or "bin clar", the name is the source of the English term claret, although that term does not refer to a clairet but to a red wine. [1] [2] The wine is bottled under the AOC of Bordeaux clairet.
A silver claret jug is a wine jug made of glass, typically with some silver, for claret, which is the British name for French red Bordeaux wine, and other wines, especially reds. Matured red wines, including claret, throw a deposit of sediment, and various methods and machines were designed to decant the wine into another container, leaving the ...
Clairette blanche (French pronunciation: [klɛʁɛt blɑ̃ʃ]) is a white wine grape variety most widely grown in the wine regions of Provence, Rhône and Languedoc in France. At the end of the 1990s, there were 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres) of Clairette blanche grown in France, although volumes are decreasing. [1]
Clairette de Die (French pronunciation: [klɛʁɛt də di]) AOC is a natural sparkling white wine from the Rhône Valley region in France.It is made from the Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains (75% minimum) and Clairette (25% maximum) grape varieties. [1]
Claret, English silver bottle ticket, by Sandylands Drinkwater. Claret (/ ˈ k l ær ɪ t / KLARR-it) is a name primarily used in British English for red Bordeaux wine. Claret derives from the French clairet, now a rare dark rosé, which was the most common wine exported from Bordeaux until the 18th century. [29]
A bottle holding 1.5 litres, the equivalent of two regular wine bottles. Manipulant French term for a grape grower who makes their own wine. Often associated with the Champagne wine region where producers of Grower Champagnes are identified by the initials RM (for Récoltant-Manipulant) on wine labels Marani
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The reconstructed Château Margaux completed in 1812. Château Margaux (French pronunciation: [ʃato maʁɡo] ⓘ), archaically La Mothe de Margaux, is a wine estate of Bordeaux wine located in Margaux-Cantenac, France, and was one of five wines to achieve Premier cru (first growth) status in the Bordeaux Classification of 1855.