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 "schema": 1,
 "id": "pinot-gris",
 "type": "variety",
 "names": {
  "name": "Pinot gris",
  "aliases": [
   "Pinot Grigio",
   "Grauburgunder",
   "Ruländer"
  ]
 },
 "region": [
  "alsace"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "colour": "grey",
  "country": "France"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "A colour sport of pinot: the berry loses most of its pigment and lands somewhere between grey, pink and bronze. Same vine, same bunch, different skin.",
  "story": "A somatic mutation in the VvMYBA1 or VvMYBA2 genes — the switches that tell a grape to make colour. It can arise from pinot noir or from pinot blanc, and it can revert."
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "pinot-noir",
   "as": "The black form, and the one this site is about.",
   "rel": "origin"
  },
  {
   "to": "pinot-blanc",
   "as": "The next mutation along the same path, in either direction.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "alsace",
   "as": "Where it grows beside its black parent under the same appellation.",
   "rel": "region"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-pinot-gris",
  "s:wp-pinot-noir"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited"
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "blurb": "A colour sport of pinot: the berry loses most of its pigment and lands somewhere between grey, pink and bronze. Same vine, same bunch, different skin.",
 "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 black form, and the one this site is about.",
   "rel": "origin"
  },
  {
   "to": "pinot-blanc",
   "type": "variety",
   "name": "Pinot blanc",
   "as": "The next mutation along the same path, in either direction.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "alsace",
   "type": "region",
   "name": "Alsace",
   "as": "Where it grows beside its black parent under the same appellation.",
   "rel": "region"
  }
 ],
 "source_list": [
  {
   "id": "s:wp-pinot-gris",
   "kind": "encyclopaedia",
   "title": "Pinot gris",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?curid=344643",
   "permalink": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375152512",
   "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-blanc",
   "type": "variety",
   "name": "Pinot blanc",
   "as": "Its neighbour on the colour ladder.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "pinot-noir",
   "type": "variety",
   "name": "Pinot noir",
   "as": "The same vine with the colour genes switched off partway.",
   "rel": "mutation"
  },
  {
   "from": "alsace",
   "type": "region",
   "name": "Alsace",
   "as": "Its grey sibling, grown on the same slopes.",
   "rel": "variety"
  },
  {
   "from": "baden",
   "type": "region",
   "name": "Baden",
   "as": "Grauburgunder, the second Burgundian here.",
   "rel": "variety"
  },
  {
   "from": "david-lett",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "David Lett",
   "as": "And the first American planting of it.",
   "rel": "variety"
  }
 ]
}