Arinarnoa
The red wine variety Arinarnoa is a new breed of INRA Bordeaux ( Institut National de la Recherche en Agronomie ) Sud-Ouest in southwest France. Under the direction of the Basque Durquéty, the grape varieties Merlot and Petit Verdot were crossed in 1956 . Arinarnoa combines the company in the wine in an interesting way the round, fleshy character of the Merlot with the acid and the spiciness of Petit Verdot.
Pierre Marcel Durquety realized a number of new breeds between 1950 and 1980, of which 7 grape varieties received plant variety protection : the 4 red varieties Arinarnoa, Egiodola , Ekigaïna , Semebat and the 3 white varieties Arriloba , Liliorila and Perdea .
It is used in France (164 hectares in 2005 and 149 hectares of wooded area in 2004), but also in Australia , Argentina , Chile , Italy , Lebanon (including at Château Ksara ), Switzerland (1.0 hectare, as of 2007 , Source: Office fédéral de l'agriculture OFAG) and Spain . The variety has had a real boom since the late 1990s.
Parentage: Merlot × Petit Verdot
etymology
Arinarnoa means something like light wine in the Basque language . The root word Arin indicates the pleasant and easy way, while arnoa means wine. Arinarnoa is a word creation that does not exist in this way in linguistic usage.
See also
- List of grape varieties
- Viticulture in France
- Viticulture in Australia
- Viticulture in Argentina
- Viticulture in Chile
- Viticulture in Italy
- Viticulture in Lebanon
- Viticulture in Switzerland
- Viticulture in Spain
literature
- Pierre Galet : Dictionnaire encyclopédique des cépages . 1st edition. Hachette Livre, 2000, ISBN 2-01-236331-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: The Wine Year 2008 (PDF) , published by Office fédéral de l'agriculture OFAG
Web links
- Arinarnoa in the database Vitis International Variety Catalog of the Institute for Vine Breeding Geilweilerhof (English)