Pink Champagne

Champagne is made from four different grapes. These are Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier and Pinot Gris. Usually it's the first two grapes that are used in the most volume.
Chardonnay is a white wine grape - but pinot noir is a red wine grape. So why is it that all Champagne is not pink?

The answer is in the way a grape works.

Grapes are all white on the inside. It's only the outside skin that has any color. You can make a white wine out of a red grape. You would just remove the skins immediately so that there was no red color added to the wine liquid. An example is white zinfandel. Zinfandel is a red grape. To make a white zinfandel, they just let the skins stay on the liquid for a short while. That lets a small amount of the tint from the red skin color the wine liquid, giving it a nice blush color.
So normally when they make a Champagne, even though they use "red grapes", they take the skin away immediately so that none of the red color from the skin affects the overall color of the Champagne liquid. In order to make a Champagne a pink Champagne, all they have to do is let the skins sit with the liquid for a short while. The longer it sits together, the more pink the liquid becomes.

Champagnes can be sweet, musty, fruity, nutty, and any variety of other flavors. Pink Champagnes tend to taste a little fruity, but they can be sweet or non-sweet depending on the maker.