Piquepoul Blanc

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Piquepoul Blanc in the book by Viala & Vermorel

Piquepoul Blanc is a white wine variety that is permitted in the French wines of Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Lirac as well as in the Spanish DO Alella , Empordà , Catalunya and Pla de Bages . It is also recommended for the entire south, but rarely used. It appears in the white wine Picquepoul de Pinet (also called Picpoul de Pinet ) from the Coteaux du Languedoc region . This wine consists of at least 70% Piquepoul Blanc.

The grape produces flowery, very acidic wines. The vine owes its name to the acidity; Piquepoul translates as lip bite or lip stick .

Before the phylloxera infestation, it was very widespread and was often blended with the Clairette Blanche grape variety . In the Armagnac region it was the most common vine; today it is replaced by the mass carrier Ugni Blanc . After the stocks had dropped to 500 hectares in the 1980s , the variety was planted again. In 2007, a vineyard area of ​​1,426 hectares was raised., In Spain it is known in the north of the country such as in Alella .

Parentage: Mutation of the red variety Piquepoul Noir .

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

In ampelography , the habitus is described as follows:

  • The shoot tip is half open. It is hairy white wool with a crimson tinge. The young leaves are slightly hairy.
  • The leaves are five-lobed and deeply indented. The stem bay is lyren-shaped open. The blade is bluntly serrated. The teeth are small and closely set compared to other varieties.
  • The cone-shaped to cylindrical grape is medium-sized. The rounded berries are also medium-sized.

The vigorous grape variety only produces low yields. The ideal vine training is that of the gobelet . Piquepoul Blanc ripens around 30 days after the Gutedel grape variety and is therefore one of the late-ripening varieties. The variety is sensitive to powdery mildew and raw rot .

Synonyms

The Piquepoul blanc variety is also known under the names Avello, Avillo, Extra, Feher Piquepoul, Languedocien, Picapoll, Picapolla, Picapulla, Picpoul and Picpoul de Pinet.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Les Cepages Noirs dans le Vignoble (PDF) ( Memento of March 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), statistics on white grape varieties per greater region, publication by the Office National Interprofessionnel des Fruits, des Legumes, des Vins et de l'Horticulture - ONIVINS, as of 2008

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