Minggu, 30 Mei 2010

Sauvignon vert

Sauvignon vert (also known as Sauvignonasse & Friulano) is a white wine grape of the species Vitis vinifera. It is widely planted in Chile where it was historically mistaken for Sauvignon blanc. The grape is distinct from the California planting of Muscadelle which is also called Sauvignon vert.

The grape is also known as Italian wine grape Tocai Friulano in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region. Though the Pinot Grigio vine that is also prevalent in Friuli is known by the synonym Tokay d'Alsace in Alsace, there is no connection between Tocai Friulano (Sauvignon vert) and Pinot grigio.

The grape is believed to have originated in the Veneto region and from there traveled to the Friuli region and other Italian wine regions such as Lombardy.

In Italy the grape was historically known as Tocai Friulano even though the grape has no known relation any of the grapes used in the Hungarian wine Tokaji even though evidence suggest that following the 17th century wedding of the Venetian princess Aurora Formentini to the Hungarian Count Batthujany that some vines of Tocai Friulano was brought with the princess to Hungary.

To better distinguish the wines and to protect the Tokaji name, the European Union established regulations prohibiting the use of names too closely associated and easily confused with Tokaji. Winemakers in the Friuli have elected to just refer to the grape as simply Friulano.

From Italy the grape is believed to have spread to France where it was transported to Chile as "Sauvignon blanc". Only in the 1990s did ampelographers determine that that the Chilean "Sauvignon blanc" was actually Sauvignon vert.

Once the discovery was made, plantings of "true" Sauvignon blanc increased as Sauvignon vert (or Sauvignonasse as it known) decreased. While the grape still remains a popular planting in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia, it currently has little presence in other parts of the world.



Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocai_Friulano


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