Villard Noir

The red grape variety is an interspecific new variety between Seibel 7053 (Chancellor) x Seibel 6905 (Subereux). Synonyms are Seyve-Villard 18-315 and Willard Noir. Incidentally, the same parents also produced the Garonnet variety. It contains genes from Vitis labrusca, Vitis lincecumii, Vitis rupestris and Vitis vinifera. The hybrid was crossed by Bertille Seyve (1864-1939) at the Seyve-Villard vineyard in Saint-Vallier (Drôme). It was a crossing partner of the new varieties Augustovski, Margot, Muscat Bleu and Rkatsiteli Magaracha. The high-yielding vine is resistant to frost and fungal diseases. It yields colourful, alcohol- and tannin-rich red wines with a spicy aroma. Towards the end of the 1960s, the vineyard area in France was still over 30,000 hectares. Due to a ban on hybrids in the meantime, rigorous grubbing-up was carried out. The variety has been permitted again in France since 2008 and is mainly used for distillation. The area under cultivation is 763 hectares. There are also further stocks in Japan, Canada, South Africa (14 ha) and the USA. In 2016, 777 hectares of vineyards were designated (Kym Anderson).

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Images: Pl@ntGrape, INRA - IFV - Montpellier SupAgro 2009-2011

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