Is Pinot Grigio considered a white wine?!


Question: What type of wine to they consider Pinot noir?


Answers: What type of wine to they consider Pinot noir?

If you're broadly classifying by red and white, then yes, Pinor Grigio would be considered white, and Pinot Noir would be considered red.
Although they are two broadly different varietals of their own.

Pinot gris is a white wine grape variety of the species Vitis vinifera. Thought to be a mutant clone of the Pinot noir grape, it normally has a grayish-blue fruit, accounting for its name ("gris" meaning "gray" in French) but the grape can have a brownish pink to black and even white appearance. The word "Pinot", which means "pinecone" in French, could have been given to it because the grapes grow in small pinecone-shaped clusters. The wines produced from this grape also vary in color from a deep golden yellow to copper and even a light shade of pink.[1] The clone of Pinot gris grown in Italy is known as Pinot grigio.

Pinot Grigio mostly makes a white wine, and Pinot Noir a red wine.

Pinot Grigio grapes vary in color, but even when the skin appear red, as it has a very thin skin there is little color to extract and while there are some pink wines made, the huge majority is white.

Though Pinot Noir has a red skin with enough color to make good red wines, its juice is clear -- like the juice of virtually all red grapes -- and it is possible to make a white wine from Pinot Noir. The most common example is Champagne which is made from a blend containing Pinot Noir.


Drea W -- when you cut and paste your answer from another site it is usual to give credit the source.

I like the Pinot Grigio but I also like Mattie's Perch- has alittle koala bear on it comes in different flavors. I have a bottle of Chardonnay...

Pinot one2 types.ONE IS what you mentioned is a white wine/
THE OTHER IS RED WINE!





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