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Details for: PI 277331, Vitis vinifera L. subsp. vinifera, Chenin Blanc

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Vitis vinifera L. subsp. vinifera

Top Name:

Chenin Blanc

Origin:

Donated – Argentina

Maintained:

Natl. Germplasm Repository - Davis

Received by NPGS:

29 Aug 1961

PI Assigned:

1961

Form Received:

Cutting

Life Form:

Vine

Life Habit:

Woody Vine

Inventory Volume:

169
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Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Cutting	5 count		DVIT 1062 0000C PL

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Vitis vinifera L. subsp. vinifera

Top Name:

Chenin Blanc

Origin:

Donated – Argentina

Maintained:

Natl. Germplasm Repository - Davis

Received by NPGS:

29 Aug 1961

PI Assigned:

1961

Form Received:

Cutting

Life Form:

Vine

Life Habit:

Woody Vine

Source History

Donated

29 August 1961.
Argentina
Comment: Received at San Francisco, California, Aug. 29, 1961. Numbered Nov. 14, 1961, and donated to Dr. Olmo, UC Davis, Viticulture Dept.
Donor(s):

Fernandez-Montero, Z.

01 January 1983.
California, United States
Comment: Donated to NCGR, Davis
Donor(s):

Olmo, Harold P., University of California

Accession Names and Identifiers

Chenin Blanc

Type: Unverified name

X44:19-20

Type: Donor identifier

University of California, Davis, Viticulture Dept. vineyard location while under the care of Dr. Olmo.

Olmo, Harold P. University of California

DVIT 1062

Type: Site identifier

Anjou

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Blanc D'Aunis

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Capbreton blanc

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Confort

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Coue Fort

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Cruchinet

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Cugnette

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Feher Chenin

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Franc Blanc

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Franche

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Gout Fort

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Luarskoe

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Pineau D'Anjou

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Pineau de Briollay

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Pineau de la Noire

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Pineau de Savennieres

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Pineau Gros

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Pineau Gros de Vouvray

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Pineau Nantais

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Plant de Breze

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Plant de Salces

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Plant de Salles

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Plant du Clair de Lune

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Quefort

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Rajoulin

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Rouchalin

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Rougelin

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Steen

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Stein

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Tete de Crabe

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Vaalblaar Stein

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Verdurant

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

White Pinot

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Narrative

Per Winkler (see citation): "Chenin blanc is the leading variety of the middle Loire region of France, where it is used to produce dry and natural sweet table wines as well at mousseux (sparkling) wines. The vines are very vigorous and productive. Chenin blanc should do well with head or cordon-training and cane-pruning, which would spread the fruit and tend to reduce bunch rot. The clusters are large medim; long conical; compact; with a thick peduncle, medium to long. The pedicels are of medium size, with brown warts (lenticels). the berries are medium; oval; with tough skins. the canes are semi-erect; medium large with medium short internodes. The leaves are of medium size; gray-green; 3 and sometimes 5-lobed; slightly hairy above and medium tomentose below; with red veins, reddish petioles, and petiolar sinus medium to closed." Per Galet (see citation): "Growing tip: felty, white with rose margin. Young leaves: downy above, felty below, bronze patches. Leaf: orbicular 025-2-58. Shoot: glabrous, mahogany red on side exposed to sun, with brown streaks on the back; long, thick, red tendrils. Cane: clear beige with darker nodes. Cluster: medium, 15-20cm long, fairly compact, conical, with one or two wings; berries oval, 10-12mm, firm golden-yellow at maturity. Chenin blanc is known to have been growing in 845 A.D. on the left bank of the Loire in Anjou at the Abbey of Glanfeuil. Its present name dates from around the fifteenth century from Mont-Chenin in the Touraine region, and it is cited by name in the literature of Rabelais. The wine is very fruity with a lot of bouquet and in good years is worth aging. It generally contains some residual sugar since it lends itself to slightly sweet (or very sweet dessert wines) rather than dry wines. In addition it is oftenn made into sparkling wine, as in Vouvray, for example. Early budbreak exposes it to spring frosts. Maturity is midseason; sensitive to downy and powdery mildews, botrytis, and the grape berry moth

Vitis vinifera L. subspp. vinifera

Genus:

Vitis

Subgenus:

Vitis

Family:

Vitaceae

Subfamily:

Vitoideae

Nomen number:

426915

Verified:

01/24/2011 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Vitis vinifera L. (215 active accession[s])
Vitis vinifera L. subsp. sylvestris Hegi (82 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Basionym
Vitis vinifera L. var. sativa DC.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Vitis vinifera L. subsp. sativa (DC.) Hegi

Common names

Language	Name	Alternate name	note	seq	Citation
English	wine grape			1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
French	lambrusque			2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
French	vigne			2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
French	vigne vinifère			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Weinrebe			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Italian	lambrusca			2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Italian	vite			2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Portuguese	vinho			2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Spanish	parra			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	vid			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	vino			2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6

Annotations

Nomenclature Name Change: 06 Aug 2002, from Vitis vinifera L. to Vitis vinifera L. subsp. vinifera

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Citations

Galet, P. 1979. A practical ampelography: grapevine identification Comstock Pub. Associates, Ithaca, New York, USA. 64-65. Number of accessions cited: 0
Winkler, A. J. 1962. General viticulture University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA. 677-678. Number of accessions cited: 0

Pedigree

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Sample Size	Study	Inventory	Availability
CHEMICAL	1st Titratable Acidity	Percent Tartaric Acid for 50-100 berries	.6732		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
CHEMICAL	1st Lab Brix Measurement	Ave. percent sugar content, measured with a digital refractometer, for 50-100 berries, harvested after the field Brix > 20	20.2		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
DISEASE	Disease	Observation of presence of disease on fruit	Absent		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
FLWR-FRUIT	Berry Shape	Typical berry shape	8 - cylindric		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
FLWR-FRUIT	Berry Weight	Average weight of 50 berries	2.33		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
FLWR-FRUIT	Seed Color	Observation of typical seed color	13		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
FLWR-FRUIT	Flesh Firmness	Weight necessary for cracking the berries.	Medium		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
FLWR-FRUIT	Number of Seeds/Berry	Average number of seeds per berry for 10 fruit	1.8		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
FLWR-FRUIT	Seed Weight	Weight in grams of ten seeds.	0.6		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
FLWR-FRUIT	Cluster Weight	Average weight in grams of one cluster with two replicates.	461.25		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Sex of Flower	Observation during flowering, mean value of 10 inflorescences	3 - Hermaphrodite (Concord)		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Sex of Flower	Observation during flowering, mean value of 10 inflorescences	3 - Hermaphrodite (Concord)		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Sex of Flower	Observation during flowering, mean value of 10 inflorescences	3 - Hermaphrodite (Concord)		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000J PL	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	Flesh Color	Flesh colored or not colored	1 - Flesh not colored		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Leaf lobes on mature leaf	Observation of the number of lobes on mature leaves	2 - Three		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Leaf Shape of Mature Leaf	Shape of a mature count leaf on a count shoot.	3 - Pentagonal		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Shoot Young Tip Color	Color of the young shoot tip	4 - Red		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Shoot habit	Observation of shoot habit	3 - Semi-erect		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Shoot Tip Color Intensity	Intensity of the color of the young shoot tip	1 - Very weak		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Shoot tip form	Observation of shoot tip form	5 - Fully-open		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Leaf Petiolar Sinus Tooth	Observation of petiolar sinus tooth presence	0 - Absent		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Berry Skin Pigment 2	Observation of typical skin color 2	1 - Green-yellow		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Bunch Density	Observation of cluster density	9 - Very dense (berries pressed		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	1st Cluster Length	Length of a first cluster in centimeters	173.33		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Bunch Morphology	Observation of cluster shape	3		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	1st Cluster Width	Width of a first cluster in centimeters	82		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Naked Vein	Observation of naked vein presence	0 - Absent		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Peduncle Length	Length of peduncle of a first cluster in centimeters	23.25		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Petiolar Sinus Mature Leaf	General shape of petiole sinus	3		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Percentage of Shot Berries	Observation of percent of shot berries	2		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
PHENOLOGY	Bud Burst Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the buds are wooly	75		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
PHENOLOGY	Bud Burst Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the buds are wooly	86		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
PHENOLOGY	Bud Burst Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the buds are wooly	86		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000J PL	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	Leaf Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the buds have a green leaf	81		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
PHENOLOGY	Bloom Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the grape flowers are in bloom	129		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
PHENOLOGY	Bloom Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the grape flowers are in bloom	131		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
PHENOLOGY	Bloom Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the grape flowers are in bloom	131		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000J PL	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	Observation Date	Julian days from January 1 when laboratory observations were made.	223		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
PHENOLOGY	1st Brix and TA Date	Julian days from January 1 when brix (LBRIX) and the Titratable Acidity (TITRATCID) were measured	226		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL
PRODUCTION	Flavor	Particular flavor of berries	0 - None (no especially distinctive flavor)		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 1062 0000C PL