Pinot blanc

Mutation of Pinot Gris

The White Burgundy, including Pinot Blanc, Pinot blanc, Pinot bianco or in Austria Klevner is a white grape variety. It is known since the 14th century and is considered one of the Pinots. Your grape skins are the hellfarbigsten among Pinots.

For a long time does not differentiate between the Pinot blanc, Chardonnay and Auxerrois, since all three types can be distinguished only by trained ampelographers and molecular biological methods.

In southern growing areas of the variety often lack the acid, there it is therefore often displaced from Chardonnay.

See also the article viticulture in Germany, viticulture in France, in Italy viticulture, viniculture and viticulture in Austria in Switzerland and the list of grape varieties.

Appearance: very old variety, mutation of the Pinot Gris, which in turn arose from the Pinot Noir.

Dissemination

The White Burgundy is grown in many European countries, especially in France (1304 hectares as of 2007, particularly in Alsace, and Burgundy, where it is also cultivated as a complement to Chardonnay ). He was admitted to the variety in champagne, but only rarely used ( growing to about 70-80 ha, compared with 3599 ha of Chardonnay, particularly in the department of Aube ). In Italy, the most Pinot bianco said variety in northern Italy in Friuli, Alto Adige, Veneto and Lombardy, in Austria in Styria, Burgenland and partly in Lower Austria and Vienna and in Switzerland (103 acres, as of 2007, source: Office fédéral de l'agriculture OFAG ) in the growing areas of Valais, West Switzerland, German Switzerland, Graubünden and Ticino. With an area under vines of 144.5 ha of Pinot blanc is one of the most popular varieties in Luxembourg (as of 2008, source :).

Germany

In Germany the species grows mainly in Baden, Pfalz, Rheinhessen and along the Saxon Wine Route Total ( = 3.5 % of German vineyards ) in 2007 were 3589 hectares planted with the grape variety Pinot Blanc. In the year 2006 3491 hectares were planted after only 2396 hectares were collected in 1999.

Source: Statistics vineyard of 13 March 2008, Federal Statistical Office, Wiesbaden, 2008 In: . Descriptive list of varieties of the Federal Plant Variety Office, 2008, pp. 198 ff

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

In the ampelography the habit is described as follows:

• The shoot tip is open. She is very hairy whitish light green. The young leaves are hairy at first spinnwebig thereafter to be almost hairless.
• The medium sized dark green leaves are rounded, usually very weak or three-lobed, five-lobed, however, rarely indicated weak. The petiole is V-shaped open. The blade is serrated blunt. The teeth are medium in size compared to the varieties. The leaf surface (also called lamina ) is vesicular coarse.
• The drum-shaped grape is rarely shouldered, medium in size and dichtbeerig. The roundish to oval berries are medium in size and of a yellowish green color. The shell of the berry is thin-skinned to medium.

The Pinot Blanc casts out fairly early and is therefore sensitive to any late spring frosts. However, He is distinguished with good maturity of the wood from a good winter hardiness.

It is a viticultural rather difficult grape variety. The thin-skinned fruits require a very sensitive editing, because their juice is released too early by injuries of the shell. They also react strongly to climate fluctuations ( heat / cold). In cool wine-producing regions should only wine growers who have a good south-facing slopes with fertile, warm enough and calcareous soils, thinking of planting this variety. It is susceptible to powdery mildew and downy mildew. Furthermore, it tends to chlorosis, raw rot and virus infestation. In the case of infection with the transmitted by nematodes fanleaf disease of crop failure is stronger when compared with other varieties on the average.

Synonyms

The grape variety Pinot Blanc is also the name Arbst know Arnaison blanc, Arnoison, Auvernas, Auvernat, Auvernat blanc, pinot Bijeli, Bijeli Burgundac, Beli pinot noir Beyaz, Biela klevanjka, Blanc de Champagne, Bon blanc, borgonja bianca, borgonja bianco, Borgognino, Burgunda, Burgundac beli, Burgundy blanc, noir knows Burgundi fehér, Burgundi kisfehér, Burgundske bielefield, Chardenay, Chardenet, Claevner, Clevner daune, Epinette, Epinette blanche, Fehér Burgundian, Fehér kisburgundi, Fehér Klevner, Fehérburgrurdi, Fehérburgundi, Fin plans fehér doré, Gentil blanc, Kisburgundi, small precious, little one knows Klevner, Moreote variété blanche, Morillon blanc, Noirien blanc, Pineau, Pineau blanc, Pino Belyi, Pinot Bianco, Pinot bianco verde, Pinot blanc, Pinot Blanc d ' Alsace Pinot Blanc vrai, Pinot Branco, Pinot doux, Pinot verde, Plant de la Dole, Plant doré, Roci Bile, Rouci Bile, Pinot Grigio white, Rulandské bile, Vert plans Weißarbst, Pinot Blanc, Weißclevner, Weißklevner, White Klevner and White known Pinot Gris.