Pinot Country

varietyFrühburgunder

also: Pinot noir précoce · Early Burgundy · Blauer Frühburgunder

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.

An early-ripening pinot that comes in two to three weeks ahead of the rest. Germany kept it alive in the Ahr and on the Nahe when growers elsewhere pulled it out for cropping too lightly.

Root. German früh (early) + Burgunder (Burgundian) Cited · wp-fr-hburgunder

How it is done Cited

Small bunches, small berries, low yield, and a harvest date that beats autumn rain — useful where the season runs short.

Facts

colourblack
countryGermany
regionAhr, Germany
confidencemedium · updated 2026-09-16

Its kin

the vinePinot noirThe same family, running four to six weeks ahead of the latest clones.regionAhrThe slate valley that kept it planted.and of this page it says: The early-ripening cousin the valley kept.

Who points back

word · says of this pageSpätburgunderThe early one the name is set against.

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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