Amigne

Amigne (or Amigne blanche ) is a white wine grape that was once known as Amique. Three quarters of the world production is around 100 000 liters, derived from the Swiss canton of Valais, and there especially from the community Magnot. Approximately 43 acres are planted in the central Valais with Amigne (2007, Source: Office fédéral de l'agriculture OFAG ). Probably Amigne has already been introduced by the Romans. The variety, however, was first mentioned in 1878 in a ampelographic exhibition in Geneva.

Amigne is vigorous and profitable, but tends to coulure.

It has similarities in morphology to Trebbiano, the resulting white wines vinified, however, differ significantly. They are marketed (eg Magnot ) dry as Grand Cru. From the variety also a strong dessert wine is made (eg Mitis ), which contains a lot of residual sugar and also edelsüß is vinified.

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

In the ampelography the habit is described as follows:

• The shoot tip is open. She is hairy white wool with light crimson approach. The young leaves are yellowish green.
• The medium to large leaves are three - or five-lobed and slightly sinuate ( see also the article sheet form). The petiole is V - shaped open. The blade is serrated blunt. The teeth are large and set far in the comparison of varieties.
• The grape is usually shouldered, medium in size (on average 212 grams) and loose-. The slightly elliptical berries are small to medium in size and of a greenish-yellow color.

The grape variety Amigne matures about 30 days after Chasselas. Makes it one of the late-ripening varieties. Amigne is a variety of the noble vine (Vitis vinifera ). It has hermaphrodite flowers and is thus self- fruiting. When the wine-growing economic disadvantage is avoided, no return delivered to have male plants grow