varietyPinot gris
also: Pinot Grigio · Grauburgunder · Ruländer
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.
The story Cited
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.
Facts
| colour | grey |
|---|---|
| country | France |
| region | Alsace |
| confidence | high · updated 2026-09-16 |
Its kin
the vinePinot noirThe black form, and the one this site is about.and of this page it says: The same vine with the colour genes switched off partway.the vinePinot blancThe next mutation along the same path, in either direction.and of this page it says: Its neighbour on the colour ladder.regionAlsaceWhere it grows beside its black parent under the same appellation.and of this page it says: Its grey sibling, grown on the same slopes.
Who points back
region · says of this pageBadenGrauburgunder, the second Burgundian here.person · says of this pageDavid LettAnd the first American planting of it.
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.