Œil de Perdrix
Oeil de Perdrix ( French for " partridge eye") is a salmon-colored rosé from the viticulture in Switzerland , consisting of Pinot Noir grapes (French .: Pinot Noir wine is made). The term is legally protected in Switzerland.
Œil de Perdrix was originally pressed in the canton of Neuchâtel , today it is also produced in other cantons of western Switzerland. In the canton of Valais , the Œil de Perdrix is a Valais AOC -certified rosé wine, which comes from the Pinot noir grape variety and which can only be blended with up to 10% Valais AOC gray or white burgundy . The designation "Œil de Perdrix du Valais" has been used explicitly since 1963 for a related rosé wine made from Pinot noir grapes from the canton of Valais.
When the Italian dessert wine Vin Santo at least 50% of the grape variety Sangiovese is pressed, it receives the additional designation "Occhio di Pernice" - which means also "partridge eye".
Trivia
"Œil de Perdrix" is the French equivalent of " corn ", also colloquial .
literature
- Jancis Robinson : The Oxford Wine Lexicon . Hallwag, Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-8338-0691-9 .
swell
- ↑ Art. 19 Wine Ordinance SR 916.140
- ↑ Article 57 of the Ordinance on Viticulture and Wine (VRW, 916.142). Sion, March 17, 2004.
- ↑ Larousse.com online dictionary: Petite tumeur cutanée bénigne, se développant dans un espace interdigital du pied. German: "Small benign skin tumor that develops in an interdigital space of the foot." (Clavus mollis), accessed June 9, 2019