Petit Manseng

Petit Manseng in the book by Viala & Vermorel

Ripe berries of the Petit Manseng grape variety in a vineyard near Monein.

Overripe berries that have already shrunk. A rich sweet wine is made from these berries.

The white wine variety Petit Manseng is a low-yielding but high-quality variety with small and hard-skinned berries. Thanks to the hard skin, the grapes can ripen for a long time on the vine without damage and form a very high sugar content (→ must weight ) through shrinking. As the main ingredient, it gives the sweet wines from the French wine-growing regions Jurançon and Pacherenc du Vic-Bilh their idiosyncratic character and alcohol strength. In addition, it is cultivated in the appellations of Béarn , Côtes de Saint-Mont , Floc de Gascogne and Tursan as well as in Australia , California and Uruguay (at the end of the 1990s there were almost 1,000 hectares of Petit Manseng, which were imported by Basque immigrants). In France, the area under vines is 987 hectares (as of 2007).

When fully ripe, Petit Manseng produces wines with scents of cinnamon, exotic fruits, honey and ripe peach. The variety is susceptible to the fungal diseases powdery mildew and downy mildew of the grapevine .

The clones 440 and 573 are approved for viticulture in France . The Gros Manseng grape variety belongs to the same family . A study published in 2007 shows that the grape varieties Gros Manseng, Gros Manseng de Lucq , Manseng Vert and Petit Manseng are genetically very closely related.

See also the articles Viticulture in France , Viticulture in Australia , Viticulture in the United States , Viticulture in Spain and Viticulture in Uruguay and the list of grape varieties .

Synonyms

The Petit Manseng grape variety is also known under the names Escriberou, Ichiriota zuria tipia (Spanish Basque Country), Icribota (French Basque Country), Iskiriota zuri tipia, Mansein, Mansein blanc, Manseing, Mansenc blanc, Mansenc grisroux, Manseng Blanc, Manseng petit blanc, Mansengou (Name in the Béarn region), Mansic, Mansin, Mausec, Mausenc Blanc, Miot, Petit Mansenc and Petit Manseng blanc.

Individual evidence

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. ↑ Louis Bordenave, Thierry Lacombe, Valérie Laucou, Jean-Michel Boursiquot: Etude historique, génétique et ampélograpfique des cépages Pyrénéo Atlantiques . In: Le Bulletin de l'OIV . tape 80 , no. 920-921-922 , 2007, ISSN  0029-7127 , p. 553-586 (French, oiv.int [PDF; 5.3 MB ; accessed on November 26, 2014]). online ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Petit Manseng 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 .