Regional Bordeaux AOCs#Bordeaux Clairet AOC

Clairet anglicised Claret, is a French red wine from the Bordeaux region.

For three hundred years - 1152-1453 - Bordeaux was subject to the English crown. No wonder, then, that England, and later the English -speaking world developed a taste for wine from the region. He was referred to as Clairet because he was against the powerful, dark Spanish and Portuguese wines lighter and brighter then.

The name, anglicized to Claret, is in England still in use for each Bordeaux, while in France is known as the Clairet by medieval tradition roséartige, light red wine from this region. This wine is only briefly fermented on the skins, so that they leave too much coloring. Rarely, the Germanized version Klarettwein used.

Next known the hero was this term, as in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, a suspicious waiter unmasked with the question of whether, at the relevant food not instead of Bordeaux ( 1955 Mouton- Rothschild) a better Claretwein would have fit. The wrong answer here led to a quick demise of the villain. This theme is also taken up in the Fawlty Towers episode The Hotel Inspectors.