Pinot Noir N
French appellation
Pinot noir N
Use
Wine grape variety
Phenology
Time of budburst: 2 days after the Chasselas.
Time of maturity: 1st period, 1 half week to 1 week after the Chasselas
Technological potential
The bunches and berries are very small to small. Pinot noir N, under favorable conditions, allows the production of red wines for ageing of an extreme quality combining power, finesse, intensity and aromatic complexity. The potential of accumulation of sugars of this variety is high for an average acidity (sometimes insufficient at good maturity) and a color often not very intense but likely to be maintained in time. Pinot noir N is also used to obtain quality base wines for sparkling wines.
Cultural and agronomic skills
Pinot noir N is particularly adapted to temperate zones. It expresses itself and gives its best results on clay-limestone soils. In hot climates, its maturation is very fast, it is sensitive to roasting and the berries tend to wilt quickly after maturity. Pinot noir N is generally trained. It expresses its fullness when its vigor is low to moderate and yields are limited. This variety, which requires careful disbudding, tends to produce a large number of grappillons.
Elements of description
Identification involves:
- the tip of the young shoot with a medium to heavy density of recumbent hairs,
- the young leaves with green or yellow color,
- the shoot with red-striped internodes,
- the adult leaves with dark or very dark green color, entire, three- or five-lobed, with a petiolar sinus not very open or closed, with lobes opposing each other towards the inferior face in cock’s crest, short teeth, a tormented blade, strongly bubbled and, on the inferior face, a weak density of lying hairs,
- to the berries which are of round or slightly elliptic shape.