Pinot Country

varietyPinot blanc

also: Weissburgunder · Pinot bianco · Klevner

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.

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.

The story Cited

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.

Facts

colourwhite
countryFrance
regionAlsace
confidencemedium · updated 2026-09-16

Its kin

the vinePinot noirThe parent form; the mutation runs both ways.the vinePinot grisIts neighbour on the colour ladder.and of this page it says: The next mutation along the same path, in either direction.

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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