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‖ Pineau|pino|
Also with lower-case initial. Pl. -eaux.
[Fr., f. pin pine (tree) + dim. suffix -eau: so called because of the form of the grape cluster.]
1. = Pinot (which is now the usual form).
1763[see tresseau]. 1833C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines v. 76 In all the distinguished vineyards of Champagne..they cultivate only the black grape.., being a variety of the vine called pinet and red and white pineau. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 1275/1 The fine wines of Burgundy, and the best Champagne, come from the pineau, a black grape. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 606/1 The white grapes employed are the Pineau blanc, which are vintaged a full fortnight later than the red grapes. 1911Ibid. XXVIII. 727/2 Practically all the important wines of Germany are white, although there are a few red growths of some quality, for instance that of Assmannshausen in the Rheingau. The latter is produced from the black Burgundy vine, the Pineau. 1967A. Lichine Encycl. Wines 404/1 Pinot, Pineau. One of the most distinguished families of wine grapes.
2. More fully Pineau des Charentes |de ʃarɑ̃t|. An aperitif made from unfermented grape juice and brandy.
1940C. Morgan Voyage iii. iv. 260 Barbet came from the house carrying a tray on which were plums preserved in cognac and a bottle of pineau. Thérèse disliked pineau; the mixture of cognac and unfermented wine was too sweet for her taste. 1951R. Postgate Plain Man's Guide to Wine iii. 60 There is a pleasant, not very distinctive drink called Pineau or Plessis, which is made from the must of wine in Charente (where cognac come from) and served in quantities in railway trains. 1959Listener 15 Jan. 125/1 Mr. Root has too low an opinion of Pineau des Charentes as an apéritif. 1959A. Waugh In Praise of Wine xii. 162 The grapes of the Charente are poor to eat and little wine is made there now... But there is a local apéritif called Pineau, made in the same way as Port, the fermentation being stopped by alcohol. 1961Listener 12 Oct. 574/1 A humdrum café-life among taxi-drivers and porters who also drank their pineau at the counter. 1968A. Laski Keeper ii. 21 You shall have an aperitif on the house. Gui! Bring the Pineau for Colin. 1973C. Ray Cognac x. 127 For centuries past, certainly since the sixteenth century, the peasants of the Charentes..have made an aperitif drink for themselves by ‘muting’ (checking the fermentation of) fresh grape juice by the addition of brandy. The ratafia of Champagne, the pineau of the Charentes, are sweet, strong, and tasty. Ibid., The best pineaux I drank in Cognac..were the Plessis of Camus and the Reynac of UNICOOP. |