Bachet Noir

The red variety Bachet Noir comes from the Aube department in the south of the Champagne wine region in northern France. Jean Guicherd explains the name Bachet ampelography in his 1905 published work Etudes d'. Monograph of cépages de l' Aube. as a deformation of the place names Buchey, a place to Colombey -les -Deux- Églises in Canton Juzennecourt.

The early maturing variety produces wines with an average alcohol content and a fresh acidity. In blending with the Gamay he gives the wine more color and body.

The Bachet Noir is permitted in any appellation. Small residual amounts ( approximately 1 acre ) can still be found in the Aube.

Origin

A 1999 Carole Meredith conducted, large-scale DNA analysis with 352 varieties it can be concluded that the variety Bachet Noir is a natural hybrid of Pinot Blanc and Gouais. From the same survey showed that the varieties Aligoté, Aubin Vert, Auxerrois, Beaunoir, Chardonnay, Dameron, Franc Noir de la Haute Saône, Gamay Blanc Gloriod, Gamay, Knipperlé, Melon de Bourgogne, Peurion, Romorantin, Roublot and Sacy similar as Bachet Noir all originated from spontaneous crosses between Pinot Blanc and Gouais. Since the genetic differences between Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir are extremely low, there is a precise specification of the Pinot - type not yet available.

The success of these spontaneous crossing is explained that the two parent varieties are fundamentally different, genetically speaking. While the varieties of Pinot family believed to originate from Burgundy, the Gouais Blanc was brought by the Romans to France. In the Rebgärten of Burgundy and the southern Champagne both varieties were for some centuries in the Joint sentence.

Ethnicity: Pinot Blanc x Gouais

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

In the ampelography the habit is described as follows:

• The shoot tip is open. It is whitish and slightly hairy woolly. The yellow-green young leaves are hairy slightly woolly on the underside.
• The rather large deep-green leaves are usually sinuate -lobed and deep. The petiole is lyrenförmig open. The blade is serrated blunt. The teeth are set wide in comparison to the varieties. The leaf surface (also called lamina ) is vesicular coarse. In autumn the foliage changes color completely red.
• The drum-shaped and elongated grape is usually shouldered and small. The roundish to oval berries are small and blue-black color.

Bachet Noir ripens 5-6 days after Chasselas, and thus is considered by international standards as early maturing. Despite a term shoot the variety for late frosts in the spring is hardly endangered. The varietal is sensitive to powdery and downy mildew as well as the raw rot.

Normally precious vines have hermaphrodite flowers and are thus self-pollinator. However, only some noble grapes, the wild vines and most American vines are dioecious. You have plants with male or female flowers. For fertilization, therefore, it always requires a male and a female plant. Bachet Noir only has whitish flowers.

Synonyms

Bachet Noir is also known under the synonyms Bachet, Bachey, François, François Noir, Noir François de Bar -sur -Aube and Gris Bachet.