Baco Blanc

Baco Blanc is a white grape variety. It is a new breed between Folle Blanche x Noah; basis of the proportion of the variety Noah is an interspecific cultivar. The crossing of the hybrid vine was made in 1898 by the French François Baco Rebzüchter. It has since been used mainly as wine grapes and for the production of raisins. Baco Blanc has hermaphrodite flowers and is thus self- fruiting. When the wine-growing economic disadvantage is avoided, no return delivered to have male plants grow.

Up to the early 1970s, she was the main component of brandy Armagnac and then was replaced by the Ugni Blanc by the general EU ban on hybrid vines. She has since been heavily cleared and was officially admitted only until the end of 2010. Once in the survey in 1958 still 24 427 hectares were raised, there were, according to the last survey of ONIVINS in 2007 were only 827 acres that were planted in southwest France with Baco Blanc.

The American viticulture pioneer and newspaper editor Philip Wagner imported some of the varieties bred by François Baco Baco Blanc and sold very successfully in wine-growing regions on the east coast of the USA. They are also found in Canada and New Zealand. In France, has been approved for the cultivation of wine from three known cloning only number 1086. According to a decree of 18 April 2008, the vine again is one of the officially authorized varieties for commercial cultivation, as shares of the noble vine Vitis vinifera contained in the genome of the plant

See also the article viticulture in France, wine-growing in Canada, viticulture and wine-growing in New Zealand in the United States and the list of grape varieties.

See also the article Baco Noir.

Synonyms: Baco 22A, 221 Bacon, Maurice Baco, Piquepoul de Pays.

Ethnicity: Folle Blanche X Noah

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

In the ampelography the habit is described as follows:

• The shoot tip is open. She is strong hairy white wool with easy reddish approach. The yellowish young leaves are hairy feinflammig.
• The dark green leaves ( see also the article sheet form) are mostly three-lobed and slightly sinuate. The petiole is V-shaped open. The blade is serrated. The teeth are large in comparison with the grape varieties. The leaf surface (also called lamina ) is vesicular coarse.
• The drum-shaped bunch is medium and loose-. The roundish berries are medium in size and of a yellow golden color. The berries have the typical Fox - tone of the hybrid vines.

Baco Blanc ripens about 20 days after Chasselas and is one of the varieties of the second maturation period ( see the section in the article vine ). It tends to Phytoplasmabefall. The Phytoplasmenbefall leads to yellowing diseases such as Yellow Gold yellowing (French: Flavescence Dorée ) or blackwood disease.