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 "schema": 1,
 "id": "pinot-blanc",
 "type": "variety",
 "names": {
  "name": "Pinot blanc",
  "aliases": [
   "Weissburgunder",
   "Pinot bianco",
   "Klevner"
  ]
 },
 "region": [
  "alsace"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "colour": "white",
  "country": "France"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The white end of the family. A further mutation that can come from pinot gris or pinot noir and can go back the other way, which is why nurserymen watch their mother vines.",
  "story": "Henri Gouges found a white-berried shoot in his Nuits-Saint-Georges vineyard and propagated it; the wine is sold as Nuits-Saint-Georges blanc. *Inference —* nothing published suggests it is more than a selected mutation of the pinot noir already growing there."
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "pinot-noir",
   "as": "The parent form; the mutation runs both ways.",
   "rel": "origin"
  },
  {
   "to": "pinot-gris",
   "as": "Its neighbour on the colour ladder.",
   "rel": "kin"
  }
 ],
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  "s:wp-pinot-blanc",
  "s:wp-pinot-noir"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited"
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "blurb": "The white end of the family. A further mutation that can come from pinot gris or pinot noir and can go back the other way, which is why nurserymen watch their mother vines.",
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "alsace",
   "name": "Alsace",
   "country": "France",
   "note": "the one red grape the appellation allows"
  }
 ],
 "kin_out": [
  {
   "to": "pinot-noir",
   "type": "variety",
   "name": "Pinot noir",
   "as": "The parent form; the mutation runs both ways.",
   "rel": "origin"
  },
  {
   "to": "pinot-gris",
   "type": "variety",
   "name": "Pinot gris",
   "as": "Its neighbour on the colour ladder.",
   "rel": "kin"
  }
 ],
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   "id": "s:wp-pinot-blanc",
   "kind": "encyclopaedia",
   "title": "Pinot blanc",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?curid=265448",
   "permalink": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364188369",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:wp-pinot-noir",
   "kind": "encyclopaedia",
   "title": "Pinot noir",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?curid=197760",
   "permalink": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371302191",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  }
 ],
 "tiers": {
  "text.what": {
   "tier": "cited"
  },
  "text.story": {
   "tier": "cited"
  }
 },
 "primary_image": null,
 "tag_facts": [],
 "recognition_facts": [],
 "acclaim": 0,
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "pinot-gris",
   "type": "variety",
   "name": "Pinot gris",
   "as": "The next mutation along the same path, in either direction.",
   "rel": "kin"
  }
 ]
}