Grape Variety: Triplett T213-19

Variety Name	Triplett T213-19
Countries of Origin	United States
Species	Vitis vinifera
Breeder	Fay Triplett
Institution	Ceres, California
Pedigree	T61-9 (Grenache x Gros Manzenc) x T74-21 (Zinfandel x Cabernet Sauvignon)
Berry Color	Black
Uses	Table,Wine
Comments	This is one of several varieties developed by Fay Triplett, a grape breeder in Ceres, California. The original Triplett collection is maintained at the Kearney Agricultural Center in Parlier, California, by University of California extension personnel. UC Cooperative Extension Viticulture Specialist Peter Christensen manages trials of the Triplett varieties. He describes this variety as follows: shoots are of medium size, semi-upright to trailing and with a somewhat closed canopy; the leaves are medium in size, dark green and glabrous of the upper surface and with short hairs on the veins on the lower surface; the superior lateral sinus is deep and the inferior lateral sinus is medium; the clusters are medium-large, conical, shouldered, and often winged, especially on basal clusters; they are loose to well-filled and of low bunch rot potential; vigorous vines tend to produce an abundant second crop; the berries are slightly-oval-to-round and dark purple in color; the dense canopy can contribute to fruit with vegetal notes.

Triplett T213-19 Selections

Information about: Selection Numbers | Registration Status

How Selection Numbers are Created

Questions are often asked as to how Foundation Plant Services (FPS) decides which number to assign to the grape selections in the foundation vineyard and whether those numbers relate to particular clones that may be the sources of the FPS selections.

The answer for most selections in the FPS foundation vineyard is that selection numbers are assigned by the next available (unused) number in sequence for that variety. There is nothing magical about it. For example, the first Sauvignon blanc selection that came to FPS in 1958 was named Sauvignon blanc FPS 01. The next Sauvignon blanc arrival received the name Sauvignon blanc FPS 02. Gaps in the numbering system in the current list of available selections mean that the omitted number was taken out of circulation for some reason, such as death from disease.

FPS intentionally chose the word "selection" rather than "clone" when referring to the products offered in the foundation vineyard. The word "clone" can be confusing and ambiguous. The major European collections have formal evaluation protocols for grape material to qualify material for release as an official "clone". Evaluation criteria includes field performance and wine making characteristics.

FPS does not perform formal clonal evaluations on the grapevine materials accepted for the foundation vineyard. The word "selection" at FPS simply means the material was collected from a single source vine from the vineyard of origin, whether within the United States or from a foreign vineyard. Some of our numbered selections have been through trials here in California but FPS does not conduct those trials or evaluations.

Having said that, there is a subgroup of selections at FPS that are official numbered clones from the formal clonal development programs in Europe. Those official clones are imported and sold by the owners as proprietary (trademarked) clonal material in the United States. The owners are large government or nursery entities in Europe, such as the ENTAV-INRA® clonal material from the IFV program in France. In order to preserve the identity of those clones, FPS agreed to assign them the same official clone number that the program in Europe gave them when released there. Cabernet Sauvignon 685 from France received the name Cabernet Sauvignon ENTAV-INRA® 685 at FPS. The owners of those proprietary clones are the ones who vouch for or affirm the authenticity of their trademarked clones.

Lastly, there is a small subset of "clones" that came to FPS in the 1980's prior to the establishment of the trademark programs for the European clones. Those clones also came to the United States associated with clone numbers assigned when the clones were developed in Europe. Many of the French clones in that group were developed at Dijon in France and the material has been known as the "Dijon clones". Those French clones were not protected by an official trademark program at the time they came to the United States. Some of those clones are no longer used in France and some were incorporated into the ENTAV-INRA trademark program.

FPS refers to this subset of clones as "generic clonal material". FPS agreed that we would assign those non-proprietary clones a new number at FPS rather than the European clonal number. They received their FPS numbers using the "next in order" rule. We may have a note on the plant description that the selection is "reported to be a certain French clone number". FPS cannot guarantee that such a selection is the official French clone number that it was formally associated with in France.

	Triplett T213-19 01
Registration Status	Provisional Provisional Status is an important term used in the regulations of the California Department of Food & Agriculture's Grapevine Registration & Certification Program. Grapevine selections with Provisional Status have successfully completed all required disease testing, but have not been confirmed as true to variety. Propagation material from Provisional selections qualifies for release subject to the understanding on the part of the customer that the identity has yet to be confirmed.
Source	Fay Triplett Collection, University of California Kearney Agricultural Center, California
Treatments	None , Tissue Culture Excision
Comments	This selection was donated to the public grapevine foundation collection by Peter Christensen, who managed the Fay Triplett collection at the University of California Kearney Agricultural Center in Kearney, California. Fay Triplett was a private breeder who used Vitis vinifera varieties to develop new grape selections for wine making. This selection is a black fruited variety.