Aragnan Blanc

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Aragnan Blanc (also: Araignan blanc ) is a white wine variety . According to the ampelograph Victor Pulliat, it is an autochthonous variety from the area around the municipality of Villelaure in the Vaucluse department . Despite slight differences, Pierre Galet suspects that the variety is likely to be identical to the Oeillade Blanche variety .

The late-ripening variety is not one of the varieties recommended for cultivation in any appellation in France , but is nonetheless permitted in the Appellation Palette near Aix-en-Provence . Pure white wines are not offered.

Synonym: Araignan Blanc

See also the article Viticulture in France and the list of grape varieties .

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

In ampelography , the habitus is described as follows:

  • The shoot tip is open. It is hairy whitish-woolly, with a slight carmine-red tinge. The young leaves are initially thickly hairy and then only lightly hairy and shiny. The young leaves are spotted bronze (anthocyanin spots).
  • The small leaves are only slightly curved with five lobes (see also the article leaf shape ). The stalk bay is oval-shaped closed. The blade is bluntly serrated. The teeth are large compared to the grape varieties. The leaf surface (also called blade) is blistered and coarse only in the area of ​​the stalk bay.
  • The medium-sized grape is conical to cylindrical, shouldered and loose berries. The oval berries are medium-sized and green-yellow in color.

Aragnan Blanc ripens around 15 days after the Gutedel variety and is therefore still considered to ripen early by international standards. It is a variety of the noble grapevine ( Vitis vinifera ).

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