Jacquère

Jacquère is an indigenous white grape variety of the French Savoy region, and is widely used there. It is in France about 1,052 hectares ( ONIVINS, Statistics 2007 ), the trend is stagnant since 2005. The species was first described on September 21, 1868. Tochon Pierre held during a wine fair in Chambery a lecture on viticulture in Savoy and the description had been made for this occasion.

The yielding variety produces fruity white wine with a flowery bouquet and on very poor soils a typical flint taste. It is sensitive to black rot and raw rot. In contrast, it is not very sensitive to the genuine - and downy mildew.

It is used as a blending partner in the white and rosé wines of the appellation Vin du Bugey and Vin de Savoie. Also in French-speaking Switzerland are known small stocks. In Portugal the variety in the regions of Ribatejo and Oeste is approved.

In France, the clones 569, 629, 658, 769, 788 and 923 are approved for the expansion of quality wines.

See also the article viticulture in France, viticulture and winemaking in Portugal in Switzerland and the list of grape varieties.

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

In the ampelography the habit is described as follows:

• The shoot tip is open. It is woolly hairy and colored slightly reddish at the tips. The young leaves with their bronze-colored spots are hairy spinnwebig.
• The large leaves are five-lobed and sinuate pronounced deep. The petiole is V-shaped open. The sheet is cut sharply. The teeth are set closely compared the vine. The leaf surface (also called lamina ) is only slightly vesicular coarse.
• The cylindrical to conical bunch is medium, shouldered and very dichtbeerig. The roundish to slightly oval berries are medium in size and of a greenish-yellow to golden- yellow color. At full maturity, the color tends to be a very bright red, the aroma of the little juicy berry is neutral.

The berries ripen about 20 days after which the good Dels. It is valid under international scale even than mid-early maturing, however, the upper limit of the still -ripening berries in his home country, the mountainous part of Savoy dar.

Difficult is their vigor. If the variety is not cut back sharply, the returns could be slightly higher at 120 hectoliters / hectare or more, which makes it a mass carrier. In these cases, the berries are underserved and as a result achieve the winemakers thin wines with high acidity. Must in order to achieve good wine qualities are carried out by a specific grape thinning reduced yields.

Synonyms

The grape is also known under the name Jacquère Altesse de Saint-Chef, Blanc des Ecoutoux, Buisserate, cherche, Coufe Chien (local name in the town of Roussillon ), Cugnète, Cugnette, Cugniette, Jacquère blanche, Jacquerre, Jacquière, Martin cot, Martin cot blanc, serrated roller Molette de Mont Melian, Plant de Myans, Plant of Abymes, Redin, Robinet (local name in the town of Conflans ), rosette, Rossettin, roussette ( but they is not going related to the grape variety roussette ) and roussette de Mont Melian known.