How many clones of Pinot Noir are there at one estate in Burgundy? Owner and winemaker Emmanuel Broux of Domaine Guillot-Broux says "I have no idea!". He tells us about selection massale and the diversity of clones of Pinot Noir in his family vineyards.
Emmanuel Broux of Domaine Guillot-Broux in the Macon region of Burgundy France sat with Ask a Winemaker in Chicago in the Spring of 2015.
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Question: How many clones of Pinot Noir are there in your vineyard in Burgundy? I have no idea! That's a very good question. I would say we have maybe 10 or 15 different clones, at least 10 or 15. I mean we have some very old vineyards and which is called La Myotte for us. And that's an old selection of plants that my grandfather went and got in Pommard in the 50s. And if you walk into that vineyards you will have some big grapes, small grapes, white grapes. And it's a big mess it's not as simple as that. But we never did any identification of the the plants. And also the one thing is, for example, we will reproduce them some of those plans the idea is not to take just a small and nice grape because what we don't know if that is that's the one who's making good wine. What we know it's that the whole plant makes a good one so it's the notion of co-plantation. So you take a wild variety of what's in your land and then you try to reproduce that, but it's a there is a part of luck into it. For example another thing makes the plants very complicated if you take a very old wine which is would be like 80 or 90 years old and produce like five or six grape, and they are and they look absolutely fantastic you take those the branches you recreate a plant you plant that and actually the plants you have is producing like big grapes, massive, massive grapes. And you said but that's not the same plant actually it is but what's happened it's after eighty years of pruning you have tons of illness in the plants which actually makes the plants very weak and they produce very small grapes. That's the whole thing you makes that plant very nice. And so it's very difficult to to reproduce. There is always a part of history of their plant part of history of the origin (of the plants) and then what you will do with the plant will also make the the future. But it's nearly impossible to actually copy the plant exactly as you see that at the first time.
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