Caladoc

'Caladoc'
Synonyms	'Caladok', 'Kaladok' - for more see the Synonyms section
Art	Grape vine ( Vitis vinifera subsp. Vinifera )
Berry color	bluish-purple
use	Red grape
breeder	Paul Truel
Institute	Institut national de la recherche agronomique in Montpellier
Breeding year	1958
VIVC no.	1989
ancestry
Cross of ' Grenache ' × ' Malbec '
List of grape varieties

'Caladoc' is a red wine variety . It is a new breed from Grenache and Malbec , which is grown in France , especially on the Rhône .

ancestry

'Caladoc' is a cross between the varieties ' Grenache ' × ' Cot ' (= ' Malbec '). The variety was bred in 1958 by Paul Truel at the Institut national de la recherche agronomique in Montpellier (INRA for short).

distribution

The area under vines in France is currently around 2449 hectares (as of 2007) and the trend is still increasing. They are grown in the departments of Ardèche, Aude, Aveyron, Corsica, Gers, Gironde, Hérault, Landes, Loire-Atlantique, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Maine-et-Loire, Nièvre, Pyrénées Atlantiques, Pyrénées Orientales, Tarn- et-Garonne and Var approved or even recommended. Small plantings are also known in Argentina and Portugal . Smallest stocks were surveyed in Switzerland (0.06 hectares, status 2009, source: Office fédéral de l'agriculture OFAG).

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

• The shoot tip is open. It is woolly hairy, greenish with a slightly white tinge.
• The light green young leaves are almost hairless.
• The medium-sized leaves are three-lobed and narrowly curved. The stem bay is open in a U-shape. The sheet is serrated to a point. The leaf surface, also known as the leaf blade, is blistered and coarse.
• The cylindrical to conical grape is sometimes shouldered, large (on average 270 g) and quite dense. The slightly elongated berries are medium-sized (they weigh an average of 2.3 g) with a bluish-purple color and are very tannic.

Maturation: late - matures under comparable conditions approx. 25 - 28 days after the ' Gutedel '.

Wine

The red wines produced are dark in color and very rich in tannins . In addition to good red wines , they also produce fine and balanced rosé wines .

properties

The variety is more similar to 'Grenache' (the mother vine) than 'Malbec' and is much less prone to trickling than 'Grenache'.

See also

• Viticulture in France
• Viticulture in Portugal
• Viticulture in Argentina
• Viticulture in Switzerland .

literature

• Pierre Galet : Dictionnaire encyclopédique des cépages . 1st edition. Hachette Livre, 2000, ISBN 2-01-236331-8 .
• Jancis Robinson : The Oxford Wine Lexicon, 3rd revised edition . 1st edition. Gräfe and Unzer Verlag, Munich, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8338-0691-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LES CEPAGES NOIRS DANS LE VIGNOBLE (PDF) ( Memento from January 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), statistics on red grape varieties per greater region, part 1, publication of the OFFICE NATIONAL INTERPROFESSIONNEL DES FRUITS, DES LEGUMES, DES VINS ET DE L'HORTICULTURE - ONIVINS for short, as of 2008
2. ↑ LES CEPAGES NOIRS DANS LE VIGNOBLE (PDF) ( Memento from March 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), statistics on red grape varieties per greater region, part 2, publication of the OFFICE NATIONAL INTERPROFESSIONNEL DES FRUITS, DES LEGUMES, DES VINS ET DE L'HORTICULTURE - ONIVINS for short, as of 2008
3. ↑ The Wine Year 2009 (PDF) ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Editor Office fédéral de l'agriculture OFAG