Pinot Noir - a grape variety for wines

Pinot Noir is a grape variety for wine. It is considered to come from France (Burgundy). In line with the morphological indices and the biological peculiarities, this variety refers to the ecological-geographic group of the Western Europe varieties. Ii is cultivated in France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Argentina and other countries.

The first leaves of the young twigs are yellow-greenish with a reddish shade in the tops, and the adult twigs are light brown and dark brown at the knots. The leaves are medium-sized, round, with 3 or 5 blades. The lower surface of the leaf is arachnid (like the spider’s threads).

The clusters are small or medium (7-12 cm long, 5-8 cm wide), cylindrical, more rarely are cylinder-conical, sometimes winged, thick or very dense, with a wooden hard tail, 4 cm long. The average weight of the cluster - 66-120 g. The grains are medium sized (14-16 mm in diameter), round or slightly oval, sometimes distorted, dark blue, covered with blue pruina. A grain weighs 130 g. The peel is thin, rather strong; the pulp is juicy and fine. The juice has no color, but has a sweet taste. There are 2-3 seeds in grains.

About 141-151 days pass from the opening up of the buds till the technological maturity of the grains, at the amount of the active temperatures of 2,670-2,800 ° C. Thus, the grains are ripening in late September. It reaches a productivity of 100-11q/ ha.

The resistance of the variety to manna and powdering is average, and to the gray rot- weak. It has a rather high frost resistance. The Pinot Noir grapes are used to produce table wines and qualitative sparkling wines.