Savagnin
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Savagnin () or Savagnin blanc is a variety of white wine grape with green-skinned berries. It is mostly grown in the Jura region of France, where it is made into Savagnin wine or the famous vin jaune and vin de paille.
Key facts
- Grape variety.name
- Savagnin
- Grape variety.image
- Cépage savagnin.JPG
- Grape variety.species
- Vitis vinifera
- Grape variety.also_called
- Traminer, Paien, Heida
- Grape variety.origin
- The Alps
- Grape variety.regions
- Jura, France
- Grape variety.notable_wines
- Vin jaune, vin de paille
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- grape variety
- Parent taxon
- Vitis vinifera
- Country of origin
- Baden-Württemberg
- Image
- Cépage savagnin.JPG
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- fruit color
- white
- Commons category
- Savagnin
- native label
- Traminer
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- History
- Distribution and wines
- France
- Germany
- Switzerland
- Australia
- Vine and viticulture
- Synonyms
- See also
- References
- Further reading
Savagnin () or Savagnin blanc is a variety of white wine grape with green-skinned berries. It is mostly grown in the Jura region of France, where it is made into Savagnin wine or the famous vin jaune and vin de paille.
==History== The history of Savagnin is complicated and not helped by its rather unstable genome. The story starts with the ancient Traminer variety, a green-skinned grape recorded in the Tyrolean village of Tramin from ca. 1000 until the 16th century. (This region now lies in the Italian province of South Tyrol). The famous ampelographer Pierre Galet thought that Traminer was identical to the green-skinned Savagnin blanc in the Jura. More recently it has been suggested that Savagnin blanc acquired slight differences in its leaf shape and geraniol content as it travelled to the other end of the Alps.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Savagnin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.