The Soft corn , rosy Wine Swiss of origin neuchâteloise, car its character and its smoothness of the black Pinot, vinified according to a special method. The Soft corn term, comes from the color which the eye of one partridge to the anguish takes.

It is about rosy of black Pinot little fermented. The discovery of this particular wine making probably goes up in the middle of the 19th century. One found labels of Soft corn neuchâtelois marketed by the Bovet field going back to 1860.

The Soft corn always constituted a product of export neuchâtelois towards the German-speaking Switzerland but also towards the Tessin and the other cantons Romand S. Of other Swiss wine-producing areas, unfortunately for the vine growers neuchâtelois, were not satisfied with this importation, but they copied the methods of development and adoptee the name of this rosy.

It is as of the end of the Second world war that this name starts to be diffused in the ic cantons Léman. When a policy of Names of Controlled origin finally started in Switzerland, it was too late to give a cantonal limitation to this denomination, this is why, of Geneva to Sierre, one vinifies Soft corn.

The White Partridge

The failure of the steps taken to hold Oeil-de-perdrix name pushed the encaveurs neuchâtelois to quickly take the necessary measures to protect a more recent speciality, the White Perdrix . It is about a white of black Pinot. This wine constitutes from now on an exclusiveness in the canton of Neuchâtel.

See too

• Vine growing in Switzerland