Cabernet Sauvignon N
French appellation
Cabernet-Sauvignon N
Usage
Wine grape variety
Phenology
Time of budburst: 13 days after the Chasselas.
Time of ripening: 2nd period, 3 to 3.5 weeks after the Chasselas.
Technological potential:
Certified ENTAV-INRA® Cabernet Sauvignon grapevine produces deeply colored, structured wines with excellent aging potential. The bunches and berries are small. The Cabernet-Sauvignon N allows us to obtain wines with a very interesting tannic structure and a sustained color at good maturity. They are generally suitable for aging and maturing in wood. The vegetal aromas of this variety give way to much more pleasant and complex aromas when the maturity is satisfactory. On the other hand, vinified alone, Cabernet-Sauvignon N often lacks fatness and roundness.
Cultural and agronomic skills:
Cabernet-Sauvignon N is a late budding, vigorous grape variety (large diameter shoots in fertile conditions) which produces very long shoots (elongated internodes) and whose tendrils lignify. It requires careful training and pruning, which can be long or short in southern areas, is relatively slow. Large pruning wounds should be avoided. The removal of the wood, which is hard, also requires a lot of work. Cabernet-Sauvignon N usually gives the best results on gravelly, draining, rather acidic and well exposed soils. This variety is sometimes subject to stalk desiccation and this risk is increased by the use of certain rootstocks like S0 4.
Elements of description:
Identification involves:
- with young leaves of reddish color, bronzed,
- with adult leaves orbicular, seven- or nine-lobed, with a petiolar sinus with slightly overlapping lobes and a bottom sometimes bounded by the vein near the petiolar point, lateral sinuses with a flat or U-shaped bottom, medium to large teeth with convex sides, a bubbled blade, and on the underside, a low density of recumbent hairs,
- to the bays which are of round shape.