🍇 Colombard
White wine and table grape from France; parents Heunisch Weiss × Chenin; 28 synonyms in VIVC.
Colombard is a white wine and table grape from France.
According to DNA markers recorded in VIVC, its parents are Heunisch Weiss and Chenin.
According to VIVC, it covered 11,877 ha in South Africa (2008), 7,790 ha in France (2009) and 794 ha in Australia (1991). Samples of the variety are kept in 36 collections. The variety is registered in the European catalogue of varieties.
Why it matters to you. VIVC lists 28 synonyms for it, among them Blanc Emery, Blanquette and Bon Blanc, so the same grape can turn up under other names. If a grape is named on the label of an EU wine, it makes up at least 85% of that wine.
How it connects to Wine
🍇 Colombard → kind of → 🍇 Grape varieties → kind of → 🍷 Wine
Links
- What is made from it
- 🥃 Fine Champagne, 🥃 Armagnac Ténarèze, 🥃 Bois Ordinaires, 🥃 Bons Bois, 🥃 Borderies, 🥃 Fine Bordeaux, 🥃 Fins Bois
- Part of
- 🍇 Grape varieties
- Origin
- 🗺️ French wine
- Where it grows
- 📍 Gascony, 🥃 Cognac, 🥃 Armagnac
- Main grape in
- 📜 Côtes de Blaye, 📜 Côtes de Gascogne
- Wines made from it
- 🍷 Pineau des Charentes
- Related to
- 🥃 Brandy
- Parents
- 🍇 Gouais Blanc, 🍇 Chenin Blanc
- Similar and different
- 🍇 Chenin Blanc
Frequently asked questions
Where does Colombard come from?
According to VIVC, from France.
What are the parents of Colombard?
According to DNA markers recorded in VIVC, its parents are Heunisch Weiss and Chenin.
Under what other names is Colombard known?
VIVC lists 28 synonyms for it, among them Blanc Emery, Blanquette and Bon Blanc, so the same grape can turn up under other names.
What to read next
- 🗺️ French wine — The country's wine and winemaking: regions, grapes and appellations.
- 🍷 Pineau des Charentes — Liqueur wine from the Charentes: grape must fortified with Cognac from the same estate.
- 📜 Côtes de Gascogne — Regional wines of Gascony, above all fresh whites from Colombard.
- 🍇 Chenin Blanc — A white grape from the Loire Valley, a descendant of Savagnin; the main grape of Vouvray and the most planted grape in South Africa.
- 🥃 Cognac — French AOC grape spirit from the Charente: double-distilled and aged at least 2 years in oak.
Similar
🍇 Trebbiano Toscano · 🍇 Meslier-Saint-François · 🍇 Folle Blanche · 🍇 Graisse · 🍇 Montils · 🍇 Folignan
Sources
- VIVC (Vitis International Variety Catalogue): passport Colombard
- VIVC: area statistics COLOMBARD
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 (grape varieties on labels)
- Wikidata