Would you like a glass of red, white or rosé? Or maybe a glass of blue? It's a question you might have heard in some French restaurants and bars over the summer.
A company from Sète is distributing Vindigo, a Spanish Chardonnay, in France. Its colour is supposed to be natural, created during the filtering process. "They take Chardonnay and put it through the pulp of red grapes. When you look at that grape, there's a blue in it called anthocyanin. They filter the wine with the skin and when it comes out, it's blue," said the distributor,.
« It's a very fruity wine that tastes like cherry, blackberry and passionfruit. It's not too strong," he added. The bottle is sold for 12 euros or more.
In 2016, because it was not indicated clearly enough that it contained a dye.
, several scientists said they didn't believe the colour of Vindigo to be natural. They think it either comes from a dye or from alkanisation.
The wine is still sold in France for now, but the distributor had to take the mention "Mediterranean blue wine" off the bottle, as it's a protected designation of origin.
