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Pinot gris is a white wine grape variety
of the species Vitis vinifera. Thought to be a mutant clone of the
Pinot noir grape, it normally has a grayish-blue fruit, accounting for
its name ("gris" meaning "gray" in French) but the grape can have a
brownish pink to black and even white appearance. The word "Pinot",
which means "pinecone" in French, could have been given to it because
the grapes grow in small pinecone-shaped clusters. The wines produced
from this grape also vary in color from a deep golden yellow to copper
and even a light shade of pink. The clone of Pinot gris grown in Italy
is known as Pinot grigio.
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History The grape was reportedly a favorite of the Emperor Charles IV, who had cuttings imported to Hungary by Cistercian monks: the brothers planted the vines on the slopes of Badacsony bordering Lake Balaton in 1375. The vine soon after developed the name Szürkebarát meaning "grey monk." In 1711, a German merchant, named Johann Seger Ruland (re)discovered a grape growing wild in the fields of the Palatinate. The subsequent wine he produced became known as Ruländer and the vine was later discovered to be Pinot gris.
Until the 18th and 19th century, the grape was a popular planting in
Burgundy and Champagne but poor yields and unreliable crops caused the
grape to fall out of favor in those areas. The same fate nearly
occurred in Germany, but vine breeders in the early 20th century were
able to develop clonal varieties that would produce a more consistent
and reliable crop. |
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