{"id":5721,"date":"2020-07-19T13:21:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T13:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=5721"},"modified":"2024-10-23T09:57:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T09:57:53","slug":"allez-le-bleu-france-becomes-a-land-of-red-white-and-now-blue-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=5721","title":{"rendered":"Allez le bleu! France becomes a land of red, white and now blue wine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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France has just become a country of red, white and now blue wine with the launch of a completely natural, turquoise-coloured variety of its favourite tipple.<\/p>\n

Blue Nun may be a total no-no in the land of Chateau Lafite\u00a0but a wine sold "in the colours of the sea" is now on sale in S\u00e8te, a port city in the South of France.<\/p>\n

The 100 per cent natural wine begins life as a traditional white but gets its blue tinge after being passed through a pulp of red grape skin thanks to the natural pigment anthocyanin.<\/p>\n

It required stiff resolve, however, for blue wine to gain a foothold in famously traditional France, where wine is viewed as a cultural heritage and which resisted the lure of arriviste ros\u00e9 for more than a century.<\/p>\n

Gallic entrepreneur Ren\u00e9 Le Bail had to shift production to more laisser-faire Spain after his fellow countrymen refused to make his wine.<\/p>\n

\nSome 35,000 bottles of Vindingo, a chardonnay selling for about 12 euros (\u00a310.70 a bottle), are already on sale in S\u00e8te\u00a0
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Now he is triumphantly selling the Almeira-made drink in his homeland but still dreams of convincing a local vineyard to take the plunge, grow his grapes, and make the wine officially French.<\/p>\n

Some 35,000 bottles of Vindingo, a chardonnay selling for about 12 euros (\u00a310.70 a bottle), are already on sale in S\u00e8te but it will soon be making inroads into the wine capital region of Bordeaux.<\/p>\n

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Mr Le Bail said that the sales had already surpassed the forecasts of his company, Mediterra Vin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The fragrant wine has a sweet, mild taste making it a popular aperitif or cocktail drink and it would pair well with seafood such as oysters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen appreciate it very much, said Mr Le Bail, \u201cIt is an ideal wine for the summer, to drink on the sand or at the edge of the swimming pool.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs soon as it enters the mouth, we have cherry aromas," Mr Le Bail told Belgian Les Echos, adding that it also had notes of blackberry and passion fruit.<\/p>\n

Mr Le Bail’s order book is bulging with requests from Britain, China, Indonesia, Italy and Belgium.<\/p>\n

Blue wine is already available in Spain and on the French island of Corsica but it is making its first serious in-roads into mainland and mainstream French wine culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It has split critics, with some insisting that Caribbean island liquor curacao should remain the only blue alcoholic drink.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Mr Le Bail will have to tread carefully on home soil.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Southern French vintners are notoriously hot-tempered about the sale of Spanish-made wine in a region awash with local produce.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They have been known to empty entire tankers of Spanish plonk into French streets to vent their fury at what they see as unfair competition from neighbouring winemakers.<\/p>\n

In early July, fraud investigators said they suspected that 10 million bottles of cheap Spanish ros\u00e9 were illegally sold as more expensive French wine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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