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Dameron

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Color of berry skin
  
Noir

Notable regions
  
Burgundy, Jura

Sweetness of resulting wine
  
Dry

Species
  
Common Grape Vine

Also called
  
Pinot Rouge (more)

Origin
  
Wine color
  
Red Wine

Similar
  
Common Grape Vine, Roublot, Sacy, Castets, Gouais blanc

Dameron is a traditional French variety of red wine grape that is a sibling of Gamay. Its wines are somewhat weightier than Gamay, but it is disappearing from its traditional areas in northern France. Not much is grown in France these days.

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History

DNA fingerprinting has shown that it is one of many grapes to be the result of a cross between Gouais blanc (Heunisch) and Pinot, making it a full sibling of famous varieties such as Chardonnay and Aligoté. Gouais blanc was widely grown by the French peasantry in the Medieval ages. This offered lots of opportunities for hybridization, and the offspring benefited from hybrid vigor as the parents were genetically quite different.

Other Gouais blanc/Pinot crosses include Aubin vert, Auxerrois, Bachet noir, Beaunoir, Franc Noir de la Haute-Saône, Gamay Blanc Gloriod, Gamay, Melon, Knipperlé, Peurion, Romorantin, Roublot, and Sacy.

Viticulture

Yields are sporadic thanks to its disease susceptibility.

Wine regions

A little is still grown north of Dijon and in the Jura.

Synonyms

Dameret noir, Durbec, Foirard noir, Gros Bec, Luisant noir, Noir De Lorraine, Noir Facan, Noirgot, Pinot Rouge, Simoro, Valais noir, Valdenois, Verdun, Verdunais, Vert noir

References

Dameron Wikipedia


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