Pinot Country

varietyChardonnay

Pinot noirthe black oneGouais blancthe peasants' vinePinot griscolour switched offPinot Meuniera chimera, floury leavesPinot blancfurther along, reversibleFrühburgundertwo weeks earlyChardonnay · Gamayand fourteen moremutationcrossed with Gouais blanc
One vine, its colour mutations, and the children it had by Gouais blanc.

Pinot's child by Gouais blanc, and the white grape sharing almost every hill in this directory. Where pinot goes, it follows — Burgundy, Champagne, the Willamette, Bien Nacido, Central Otago.

The story Cited

DNA work in the 1990s put the cross beyond argument: a pinot crossed with Gouais blanc produced chardonnay, aligoté, auxerrois, gamay, melon and eleven others. The Pinot parent need not have been pinot noir — any member of the family could have done it.

Facts

colourwhite
countryFrance
regionBurgundy, The world
confidencehigh · updated 2026-09-16

Its kin

the vinePinot noirIts parent, and the vine planted on the next row.and of this page it says: Its child, by Gouais blanc; the two share the same hillsides and the same cellars.regionCôte de BeauneWhere the family split the hill: whites on one flank, reds on the other.and of this page it says: The grape that takes the white flank of the same slope.

Who points back

vineyard · says of this pageMusignyThe exception planted here: Musigny blanc.

Sources

Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.

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