Baco Blanc

Baco Blanc
Synonyms	see section synonyms
Art	Interspecific crossing
Berry color	yellow gold
use	White grape; Raisin grape;
origin	France
breeder	François Baco
Institute	private vine grower
Breeding year	1898
VIVC no.	868
ancestry
	Cross of ; Folle Blanche × Noah
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Baco Blanc is a white wine variety . It was mainly used as a wine grape and for the production of raisins .

ancestry

It is a new breed between Folle Blanche x Noah ; due to the proportion of the Noah variety, it is an interspecific variety. The crossing of the hybrid vine took place in 1898 by the French Rebzüchter François Baco .

distribution

Until the beginning of the 1970s it was the main component of the Armagnac brandy and was then replaced by the Ugni Blanc grape variety through the general EU ban on hybrid vines . It has been severely cleared since then and was only officially approved until the end of 2010. After 24,427 hectares of vineyards were raised in the survey in 1958, according to the last survey by ONIVINS in 2007 there were only 827 hectares that were planted with Baco Blanc in southwest France.

The American viticulture pioneer and newspaper editor Philip Wagner imported some of the grape varieties bred by François Baco and sold Baco Blanc very successfully to wine-growing regions on the east coast of the USA. They are also found in Canada and New Zealand .

According to a decree of April 18, 2008, the grape variety is again one of the officially approved grape varieties for commercial cultivation, since the genome of the plant contains parts of the noble grape Vitis vinifera (from the cross-breeding partner Folle Blanche ).

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

The shoot tip is open. It is very hairy white wool with a very slight reddish tinge. The yellowish young leaves are hairy with fine flames.
The dark green leaves are usually three-lobed and only slightly curved. The stem bay is open in a V-shape. The leaf margin is serrated with large B teeth. The leaf surface (also called blade) is blistered and rough.
The cylindrical grape is medium-sized and has loose berries. The round berries are medium-sized and golden-yellow in color. The berries have the typical Fox tone of the hybrid vines.

Maturity: Baco Blanc ripens approx. 20 days after the Gutedel and is one of the grape varieties of the second ripening period (see the chapter in the article Grape variety).

properties

It is prone to phytoplasm contamination . The phytoplasm infestation leads to yellowing diseases such as golden yellow yellowing ( French : Flavescence dorée ) or blackwood disease .

Synonyms

22 A Baco, Baco 22 A, Baco 22-A, Baco 221, Baco Alb, Baco Blanche, Maurice Baco, Piquepoul De Pays, Piquepoul Du Ger.

literature

P. Galet : Cépages et vignobles de France. Tome 1: Les vignes américaines. 2. édition entièrement refondue . Paysan du Midi, Montpellier 1988, ISBN 2-902771-03-7 .
Pierre Galet: Dictionnaire encyclopédique des cépages . 1st edition. Hachette Livre, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-01-236331-8 .
Jancis Robinson : The Oxford Wine Lexicon . 3rd completely revised edition. Hallwag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8338-0691-9 .

Individual evidence

↑ LES CEPAGES BLANCS DANS LE VIGNOBLE (PDF) ( Memento from March 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), statistics on white 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
↑ LES CEPAGES BLANCS DANS LE VIGNOBLE (PDF) ( Memento from March 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), statistics on white 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
↑ NOR: AGRP0806778A: Arrêté du 18 avril 2008 relatif au Catalog officiel des espèces et variétés de plantes cultivées en France (plants de vigne) ( Memento of July 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Horst Dietrich Mohr: Color Atlas Diseases, Pests and Nûtzlinge an der Weinrebe , page 80, ISBN 3-8001-4148-5
↑ Baco Blanc in the database Vitis International Variety Catalog of the Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof (English)

[1] LES CEPAGES BLANCS DANS LE VIGNOBLE (PDF) ( Memento from March 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), statistics on white 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 BLANCS DANS LE VIGNOBLE (PDF) ( Memento from March 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), statistics on white 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] NOR: AGRP0806778A: Arrêté du 18 avril 2008 relatif au Catalog officiel des espèces et variétés de plantes cultivées en France (plants de vigne) ( Memento of July 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

[4] Horst Dietrich Mohr: Color Atlas Diseases, Pests and Nûtzlinge an der Weinrebe , page 80, ISBN 3-8001-4148-5

[5] Baco Blanc in the database Vitis International Variety Catalog of the Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof (English)