Petit Manseng

The white grape Petit Manseng is a low-yield but high quality variety with small, hard-shelled berries. Through the hard shell of the grape without damage can be long ripen on the vine, forming a very high sugar content (→ Most weight) by shrinking. You are as a main ingredient the sweet wines of the French wine regions Jurançon and Pacherenc du Vic - Bilh their individual character and the alcohol strength. It will also ( were in the late 1990s there nearly 1000 acres with Petit Manseng be stock imported by Basque immigrants) in the appellations Béarn, Côtes de Saint -Mont, Floc de Gascogne and Tursan as well as in Australia, California and Uruguay cultivated. In France, the vineyard is 987 acres (as of 2007 ).

In the fully ripe Petit Manseng produces wines with notes of cinnamon, exotic fruits, honey and ripe peach. The variety is susceptible to fungal diseases powdery mildew and downy mildew of grapevine.

For wine, the clones 440 and 573 registered in France. At the same family belongs the Gros Manseng grape. A study published in 2007 study shows that the varieties Gros Manseng, Gros Manseng de Lucq, Manseng and Petit Manseng Vert are genetically very closely related.

See also the article viticulture in France, viticulture in Australia, viticulture in the United States, viticulture and winemaking in Spain in Uruguay and the list of grape varieties.

Synonyms

The grape Petit Manseng is also known under the name Escriberou, Ichiriota Zuria tipia (Spanish Basque Country ), Icribota (French Basque Country ), Iskiriota zuri tipia, Mansein, Mansein blanc, Manseing, Mansenc blanc, Mansenc grisroux, Manseng Blanc, Manseng petit blanc, Mansengou (Designation in the Béarn region ) known Mansic, Mansin, Mausec, Mausenc Blanc, Miot, Petit Manseng and Petit Mansenc blanc.