What is BLOUGE? Apologies for the soft-focus photo but perhaps you can make out the full description BLOUGE/BLANC SUR ROUGE.
This rose wine is a blend of Chardonnay and Carignan. The 'proper' way to make Rose is to crush red grapes and remove the juice from the skins more or less quickly. There have always been wines whith red and white grapes in the mix but these have been frowned on to a certain extent. The term 'Promiscuous' was used although we haven't seen it recently.
What we have seen recently are more and more examples of wine from a mix of white and red grapes, and not only Roses. Time was that a little Viognier in a Cote du Rhone red was a rarity but now?
There's so much of it going on that there had to be a word for it. We rather like BLOUGE, don't you?
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