Grolleau

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Grolleau in the book by Viala & Vermorel (as Groslot de Cinq Mars)

Grolleau is a red wine variety . It is mainly grown in the Loire Valley in France , but is falling sharply (the area under vines was 2,363 hectares in 2007 compared to 11400 hectares in 1958). It was mostly replaced by the Gamay and the Cabernet Franc variety . It is also called the groslot .

The variety is productive (80 to 120 hectoliters per hectare) and delivers acidic wines that are not very alcoholic. Single-variety , for example, it is developed into the rosé wine Rosé d'Anjou . It is often blended with Gamay and is also part of sparkling wines .

There are also white variants: The Grolleau Gris is cultivated in Maine-et-Loire , Vendée and Loire-Atlantique , the Grolleau blanc was found by the ampelographers Chauvigné and Maisonneuve in the Coteaux-du-Layon appellation , but it seems to have died out in the meantime .

Synonyms

Grolleau is also known under the names Bourdalès (erroneously named in Madiran), Franc noir, Gamay de Châtillon, Gamay groslot, Gloire de Tours, Grolleau de Cinq-Mars, Grolleau de Touraine, Grolleau de Tours, Grolo chernyi, Groslot, Groslot de Cinq-Mars, Groslot de Valère, Groslot de Vallères, Moinard, moinard grolleau, neri, Noir de Saumur, Pineau de Saumur, Plant boisnard and Plant mini are known.

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

In ampelography , the habitus is described as follows:

  • The shoot tip is open. It is hairy white wool with a slight carmine red tinge. The bronze-colored young leaves are only hairy cobwebs and the leaf surface is blistered.
  • The non-corrugated leaves are either not curved or three-lobed (very rarely also five-lobed) and slightly curved. The stem bay is lyren-shaped open. The blade is bluntly serrated. The teeth are set medium-wide in comparison to the grape varieties. In autumn the leaves turn reddish in color.
  • The cylindrical to cone-shaped grape is large, shouldered and densely grilled. The round, very juicy berries are medium-sized and blue-black in color.

The grape variety that emerges early ripens approx. 15 days after the Gutedel and is therefore early ripening within the red grape varieties, so that it can ripen in relatively cool locations.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Les Cepages Noirs dans le Vignoble (PDF) ( Memento of January 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), statistics on red grape varieties per Greater Region, Part 1, publication by the Office National Interprofessionnel des Fruits, des Legumes, des Vins et de l'Horticulture - ONIVINS, 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 by the Office National Interprofessionnel des Fruits, des Legumes, des Vins et de l'Horticulture - ONIVINS, as of 2008

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