Morrastel Bouschet

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Morrastel Bouschet
Synonyms see section synonyms
Art Grape vine ( Vitis vinifera subsp. Vinifera )
use
origin France
breeder Henri Bouschet
Breeding year 1855
VIVC no. 8009
ancestry

Cross of
Carignan × Bouschet Petit

List of grape varieties

Morrastel Bouschet is a red wine variety . It was bred by Henri Bouschet in 1855 and was widely used.

Descent, origin

Morrastel Bouschet is a cross between the Carignan and Petit Bouschet varieties from France.

distribution

In 1958, 10,709 hectares of vineyards were surveyed in France . From the beginning of the 1980s, it was heavily cleared due to EU regulations. In 2008 France only had 7 hectares.

Wine

The wines of the variety are deep red, but have a low alcohol content. Morrastel Bouschet is considered a dyer's grape , a characteristic it received from the Petit Bouschet variety.

See also the article Viticulture in France .

Synonyms

Synonyms 5: Bouschet, Gros Morrastel, Gros Morrastel Bouschet, Morrastel Bouschet A Gros Körner, Morrastel Bouschet A Sarments Etales.

literature

  • Norbert Tischelmayer: Wine Glossary. 2777 terms around wine, Np Buchverlag, Mail 2001, ISBN 3-85326-177-9
  • Pierre Galet : Dictionnaire encyclopédique des cépages . 1st edition. Hachette Livre, 2000, ISBN 2-01-236331-8 .
  • Pierre Galet: Cépages et vignobles de France, Tome 1 - les vignes américaines . 2nd Edition. 1988, ISBN 2-902771-03-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jancis Robinson , Julia Harding, José Vouillamoz : Wine Grapes , 1st edition 2012, Penguin Books, London, ISBN 978-0-06-220636-7 .
  2. ↑ accessed on October 20, 2016 Morrastel Bouschet in the database Vitis International Variety Catalog of the Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof (English)