Life Style / Wine Grapes / Auxerrois Blanc: Local name for variety, used for white wine production, grown in the northeast Moselle and Alsace regions of France. Used to produce mildly acidic wines that add a honied intensity to blends with the Pinot Blanc in the better vintage years. Is one of the 16 known varieties possibly directly descended from the ancient Pinot cepage x Gouais Blanc cross.
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Lifestyle / Wine Grapes / Auxerrois: French local name for the Malbec, a.k.a C??t red wine grape species grown in the Cahors region of France and also, confusingly, an important white-wine producing variety in the Alsace region called th MORE
Lifestyle / Wine Grapes / Pinot Blanc: Was thought to be a mutation of the Pinot Gris vine. However, recent DNA analysis shows identical genetic makeup to the Blau Burgunder variety of Austria, possibly having the parents Schwarzriesling ( MORE
Lifestyle / Wine Grapes / Picardan (Blanc): Listed as a synonym name, by the international grape variety database (above) at Geilweilerhof, Germany, for the Bourboulenc white wine producing variety grown in the southern Rhone and Provence regio MORE