Grolleau Gris
Grolleau Gris is a white wine from France . It is a variant of the red Grolleau grape variety and is mainly used in the Maine-et-Loire department within the Loire wine-growing region as a blend of white wines for the Vin de Pays du Jardin de la France. It is also used in the production of sparkling wines in the same area. At Brem-sur-Mer it is used in the white wines of the Fiefs Vendéens .
After the variety had almost disappeared in the middle of the 20th century, the planted area increased from 21 hectares in 1958 to currently over 457 hectares (status 2007, source ONIVINS). At the end of the 1990s, the area was almost 900 hectares.
It is also cultivated in Romania and Australia .
See also the articles Viticulture in France , Viticulture in Australia and Viticulture in Romania, as well as the list of grape varieties .
Synonyms: Grolleau, Grolleau Gris de la Thibaudière, Groslot Gris
Ampelographic varietal characteristics
- 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 rounded, very juicy berries are medium-sized and greyish-pink in color.
Maturity: The grape variety that emerges early ripens approx. 15 days after the Gutedel and is therefore still considered to ripen early within the white grape varieties, so that it can ripen in relatively cool locations.
Web links
- Grolleau Gris in the database Vitis International Variety Catalog of the Institute for Vine Breeding Geilweilerhof (English)
literature
- Pierre Galet : Dictionnaire encyclopédique des cépages. Hachette, 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 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
- ↑ 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