{"id":10037,"date":"2014-05-21T07:56:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T11:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winedineguide.com\/?p=10037"},"modified":"2019-09-04T07:14:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T11:14:10","slug":"what-is-the-true-color-of-pinot-grigio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winedineguide.com\/?p=10037","title":{"rendered":"The true color of pinot grigio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics --><br \/>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=UA-13197291-2\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script>\n  window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];\n  function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}\n  gtag('js', new Date());<\/p>\n<p>  gtag('config', 'UA-13197291-2');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10039\" src=\"https:\/\/winedineguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Vie-Di-Romans-Pinot-Grigio.jpg\" alt=\"Vie-Di-Romans-Pinot-Grigio\" width=\"856\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/winedineguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Vie-Di-Romans-Pinot-Grigio.jpg 856w, https:\/\/winedineguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Vie-Di-Romans-Pinot-Grigio-400x298.jpg 400w, https:\/\/winedineguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Vie-Di-Romans-Pinot-Grigio-200x149.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Straw yellow, coppery, paper white, ros\u00e9 or onion skin:<br \/>\nthese are the hues that we can expect when we encounter a Pinot Grigio, so that the question often legitimately arises of what exactly is the correct color expression of this wine?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pinot Grigio is often called a white grape, but that is incorrect, since it is not at all a white grape. The name itself\u2013&#8221;grigio&#8221; means grey, indicating that it is a grape that is not perfectly white.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pinot Grigio is an off shoot of Pinot Noir, and without entering into the minutiae of genetics; If we glance at the color of the berry is enough to notice the color of the berry itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10042\" src=\"https:\/\/winedineguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-Copperish-Hue.jpg\" alt=\"The-Copperish-Hue\" width=\"709\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/winedineguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-Copperish-Hue.jpg 709w, https:\/\/winedineguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-Copperish-Hue-400x302.jpg 400w, https:\/\/winedineguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-Copperish-Hue-200x151.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Going a bit deeper into the technical details: The coppery hue of the wine is attributed to a more or less extended maceration of the must, during which the colorants in the berry&#8217;s skin sip into the must. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But this presence of color happens even when there is no skin contact during fermentation.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 1.125rem;\">It begins on the vine, as the berry ripens, a certain amount of pigment moves into the berry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All musts of pinot grigio, when they are freshly pressed, exhibit a hue that is to some degree coppery, but only a few winemakers are able to preserve that tonality over time; the majority of the wines suffer a progressive loss of hue and finally display the hallmark straw yellow color.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The reason for this, lies in the fact that pinot grigio\u2019s pigment, which derives from its\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anthocyanin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">anthocyanin<\/a>, oxidizes quite easily during the pressing process and although it remains intact during fermentation, it gradually disappears through the progressive precipitation of the oxidized pigments.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The natural color accumulates as sediment in the aging container, coloring the fine lees pink. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If processing the grapes and handling the must is performed in an oxygen free environment, then the pigments naturally occurring in the grape will be preserved and will remain stable throughout the life of the wine. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is a natural consequence of an oxygen free production practice, aimed at preserving the full spectrum of the grape\u2019s aromatic compounds, which can be lost during this stage of wine making.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Food and plants rich in anthocyanins include the blueberry, raspberry, <a title=\"Black rice\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_rice\">black rice<\/a>, and black soybean, among many others that are red, blue, purple, or black. Even some of the colors of autumn leaves derive from <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anthocyanin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">anthocyanin<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinot Grigio is often called a white grape, but that is incorrect, since it is not at all a white grape. The name itself&#8211;grigio means grey&#8211;indicates that it is a grape that is not that is not perfectly white. This variety is an offshoot of Pinot Noir, and without entering into the minutiae of genetics, a glance at the color of the berry is enough to see that. The coppery hue of the wine is often attributed to a more or less extended maceration of the must on the skins, during which the colorants in the grape-skin pass into the must, as happens on a normal basis with red wines. In fact, however, the presence of color in the must happens even when there is no skin contact during fermentation, since even when the grape is still on the vine, and it achieves ripeness, a certain amount of pigment passes into the juice in the berry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1346],"tags":[1361],"class_list":["post-10037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alchemy-was-the-beginning-of-chemistry","tag-pinot-grigio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.7.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The true color of pinot grigio - WineDineGuide<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/winedineguide.com\/?p=10037\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The true color of pinot grigio - WineDineGuide\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pinot Grigio is often called a white grape, but that is incorrect, since it is not at all a white grape. 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