Noirs in a sentence

One of my (many) restaurant bête noirs is being asked for the umpteenth time whether everything is all right.

The UK is the biggest export market for a range that includes four single-vineyard Chardonnays (retail price A$82, about £44) and four single-vineyard Pinot Noirs (A$86).

When he isn’t working on his next project or studying, you can catch him watching film-noirs on Turner Classic Movies.

As consolation, I’d like to highlight 25 notable film noirs that are worth checking out.

From Oregon to California, the West Coast is known for producing some of the best pinot noirs in the world.

Jeff and Mark Pisoni have a series of chardonnays and pinot noirs that continue to impress us.

This year, more than 1,800 wines from 230 Canadian Wineries were judged at the Wine Align National Wine Awards and Stanley’s Pinot Noirs were the talk of the competition.

To celebrate their one-year anniversary, The Criterion Channel are bringing back one of the series that they launched one, an excellent slate of pulpy noirs, the majority of which were produced in the heyday of the ’40s and ’50s.

A new French movement, les gilet noirs (the black vests), makes racial justice the center of its protests, arguing for the rights of migrants, especially African migrants, who have long struggled with discrimination in France.

In the early days of the French colony Beauce farmers, wearing their “jarrets noirs” (muddy boots) were easily identifiable in the capital selling their produce and other goods.

It’s pulpy and slow-burning, with shades of the American noirs of the Seventies.

The pinot noirs and rieslings from different blocks, plus outliers like a blaufrankisch from his sabbatical to Austria in 2010, are stacked high around the room.

A half-decade after Double Indemnity and The Lost Weekend, Billy Wilder made Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Ace in the Hole (1951), noirs that were not so much crime dramas as satires on Hollywood and the news media.

An A-level feature all the way, the film's commercial success and seven Oscar nominations made it probably the most influential of the early noirs.

A number of low- and modestly-budgeted noirs were made by independent, often actor-owned, companies contracting with larger studios for distribution.

A substantial number of latter-day noirs flout such conventions: vice emerges triumphant in films as varied as the grim Chinatown and the ribald Hot Spot.

Ballinger and Graydon (2007), p. 41. Though several late classic noirs, Kiss Me Deadly in particular, were deeply self-knowing and post-traditional in conception, none tipped its hand so evidently as to be remarked on by American critics at the time.

Colons (colonists), or, more popularly, pieds noirs (literally, black feet) dominated the government and controlled the bulk of Algeria’s wealth.

Elsewhere, Italian director Luchino Visconti adapted Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice as Ossessione (1943), regarded both as one of the great noirs and a seminal film in the development of neorealism.

From the 1960s, the city saw the coming of " Pied-Noirs " (French Algerians) including immigrants from the Maghreb and French from mainland France.