Teinturier, a
French language term meaning to
dye or
stain, is a
wine term applied to
grapes whose flesh and juice is red in colour due to
anthocyanin pigments accumulating within the pulp of the grape berry itself. In most cases, anthocyanin pigments are confined to the outer skin tissue only, and the squeezed grape juice of most dark-skinned grape varieties is clear. The red color of
red wine comes from anthocyanins extracted from the
macerated (crushed) skins, over a period of days during the
fermentation process.