Villard Noir

Villard Noir is a red wine variety . It is an interspecific new breed between Chancellor and Seibel 6905. The crossing took place at the Seyve-Villard vineyard in the municipality of Saint Vallier in the Drôme department . Together with Villard Blanc, it was the most successful hybrid grape in France. The Garonnet grape variety comes from the same cross .

At the end of the 1960s, the vineyard area of ​​Villard Noir was still over 30,000 hectares . Due to formerly applicable EU regulations (hybrid vines are prohibited for the production of quality wines), however, the vines were almost completely cleared. In 2007 there were still around 1,399 hectares of planted vineyards registered. 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 . Today's stocks are mainly used for the distillation of brandies . The high-yielding and frost-resistant variety is still grown today in the eastern United States and Japan . It produces alcohol-rich, dark red wines with a spicy character.

Synonyms: Seyve-Villard 18-315 or Seyve-Villard 18315, SV 18-315, Willard Noir

Descent: Chancellor (vulgo Seibel 7053) × Le Subéreux (vulgo Seibel 6905) (see also the article Seibel vines )

See also

• List of grape varieties
• Viticulture in France
• Viticulture in the United States
• Viticulture in Japan

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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
2. ↑ 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
3. ↑ Arrêté du 18 avril 2008 relatif au Catalog officiel des espèces et variétés de plantes cultivées en France ( Memento of July 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Published in JORF n ° 0102 of April 30, 2008

Web links

• Villard Noir in the database Vitis International Variety Catalog of the Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof (English)

literature

• Pierre Galet : Cépages et vignobles de France. Volume 1: Les vignes Américaines. 2e édition, entièrement refondue. Paysan du Midi, Montpellier 1988, ISBN 2-902-771-03-7 .
• Pierre Galet: Dictionnaire encyclopédique des cépages. Hachette, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-01-236331-8 .
• Jancis Robinson : The Oxford Wine Lexicon . 3rd revised edition. Gräfe and Unzer Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8338-0691-9 .