Bijou Noirビジュノワール
- Wineries growing it
- 1
- Awards
- 7
A red-wine grape with a complex crossing behind it, usually making a deeply coloured, full-flavoured red with rounded acidity.
Bijou Noir is a red-wine grape bred by the Yamanashi Prefectural Fruit Tree Experiment Station by crossing Malbec with Yamanashi No. 27, itself a Koshu Sanjaku–Merlot cross. It was named Grape Norin No. 23 in 2006 and formally registered as a variety in 2008. The grapes can reach high sugar levels, rarely split and ripen in early September at the breeding site. The variety colours well even in warm regions and can mature in cool ones. Yamanashi describes the wines as rounder and lower in acidity than Merlot or Cabernet Sauvignon, with pronounced astringency and depth.
Notes on aroma and taste describe general tendencies for this grape, not claims about any particular wine — the actual character depends on the producer and how it is made.
Statements of fact — origin, crossing, plant-variety registration and growing regions — have been checked against public bodies, research institutes, or the breeder (1 sources).
- www.pref.yamanashi.jp 2026-08-28
Wineries growing Bijou Noir
1 listed wineries are recorded by their sources as growing this grape.