Pinot (pronounced ) is a
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grape family.
Wine grape varieties in the Pinot family
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Pinot blanc
Pinot blanc is a white wine grape. It is a point genetic mutation of Pinot noir. Pinot noir is genetically unstable and will occasionally experience a point mutation in which a vine bears all black fruit except for one cane which produces ...
(Pinot bianco, Weißburgunder)
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Pinot gris
Pinot Gris, Pinot Grigio (, ) or Grauburgunder is a white wine grape variety of the species ''Vitis vinifera''. Thought to be a mutant clone of the Pinot Noir variety, it normally has a grayish-blue fruit, accounting for its name, but the gr ...
(Pinot grigio, Grauburgunder)
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Pinot Meunier (Schwarzriesling)
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Pinot noir
Pinot Noir () is a red-wine grape variety of the species ''Vitis vinifera''. The name may also refer to wines created predominantly from pinot noir grapes. The name is derived from the French language, French words for ''pine'' and ''black.' ...
(Spätburgunder, Pinot nero)
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Pinot Noir Précoce (Frühburgunder)
Biochemistry
Red-berried Pinot vines are known to not synthesize
acetylated or
para-coumaroylated anthocyanins, as other grape varieties do, only
glucosylated anthocyanins.
["Biosynthesis of Anthocyanins and Their Regulation in Colored Grapes". Fei He, Lin Mu, Guo-Liang Yan, Na-Na Liang, Qiu-Hong Pan, Jun Wang, Malcolm J. Reeves and Chang-Qing Duan, ''Molecules'', 2010, 15, pages 9057-9091, ]
See also
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Terret (grape)
Terret is an ancient ''Vitis vinifera'' vine that, like the parent Pinot vine of Pinot noir's history, mutated over the course of thousands of years into grape varieties of several color. Originating in the Languedoc-Roussillon wine of southern ...
, a grape vine like Pinot that has mutated into several sub-varieties
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