Colombard
Sign in to saveColombard (also known as French Colombard in North America) is a white French wine grape variety that may be the offspring of Chenin blanc and Gouais blanc. This makes the grape the sibling of the Armagnac Meslier-Saint-François and the nearly extinct Cognac grape Balzac blanc.
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- Grape variety.name
- Colombard
- Grape variety.color
- Blanc
- Grape variety.image
- Colombard raisin.jpg
- Grape variety.caption
- Colombard grapes
- Grape variety.species
- Vitis vinifera
- Grape variety.also_called
- See list of synonyms
- Grape variety.origin
- France
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- grape variety
- Country of origin
- Charente
- Image
- Colombard raisin.jpg
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- hybrid of
- Gouais blanc
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- Colombard
- native label
- Colombard
- fruit color
- white
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Colombard (also known as French Colombard in North America) is a white French wine grape variety that may be the offspring of Chenin blanc and Gouais blanc. This makes the grape the sibling of the Armagnac Meslier-Saint-François and the nearly extinct Cognac grape Balzac blanc.
In France, it was traditionally grown in the Charentes and Gascony for distilling into Cognac and Armagnac respectively. Today it is still among the permitted white grape varieties in Bordeaux wine, and in Gascony for Vins de Pays Côtes de Gascogne and the white Floc de Gascogne. aperitif drink. The wine is known for its distinctive flavours of Guava.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Colombard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.