Grape Variety: Gouais blanc

Variety Name	Gouais blanc
Common Synonyms	Heunisch weiss
All Synonyms	Absenger, Baii blanc, Bauernweinbeer, Bauernweinbeere weiss, Bauernweintraube, Belina, Belina Debela, Belina Drobna, Best's No.4, Blanc de Serres, Blancio, Boarde, Bogatyur, Bon blanc, Bordenauer, Borzenauer, Bouillan, Bouillaud, Bouilleaud, Bouillen, Bouillenc, Bourgeois, Bourguignon, Branestraube, Branne, Burgegger weiss, Burger, Cagnas, Cagnou, Champagner Langstielig, Colle, Coulis, Dickweisser, Dickwiss, Enfarine blanc, Esslinger, Figuier, Foirard blanc, Frankenthaler, Gau, Gauche blanc, Geuche blanc, Goe, Goet, Gohet, Goi, Goin, Goix, Got, Gouai, Gouais Jaune, Gouais Long, Gouais Rond, Gouas, Gouaulx, Gouay, Gouche, Gouche blanche, Goue, Gouest, Gouest Sauge, Gouet blanc, Gouette, Gouge, Gouget blanc, Gouillaud, Gouis de Mardeuil, Gousse, Grauhuensch, Grobe, Grobes, Grobheunisch, Grobweine, Grobweisse, Gros blanc, Gruenling, Guay Jaune, Gueche blanc, Guest Salviatum, Gueuche blanc, Guillan, Guinlan, Guy, Guy blanc, Gwaess, Harthuensch, Hartuensch, Heinisch, Heinish, Heinsch, Heinschen weiss, Hennische weiss, Hensch, Heunisch, Heunisch blanc, Heunisch weiss, Heunisch weisser, Heunischtraube, Heunish weiss, Heunsch, Heunscher, Heunschler, Heunschlir, Hinschen, Hinschene, Hintsch, Huensch, Huenschene, Huentsch, Hunnentraube, Hunsch, Hunschrebe, Huntsch, Hyntsch, Issal, Issol, Kleinbeer, Kleinberger, Laxiertraube, Liseiret, Lisoera, Lombard blanc, Luxiertraube, Mehlweisse, Mehlweisse Gruen, Mendic, Moreau blanc, Mouillet, Nargouet, Pendrillart blanc, Perveiral, Perveiral bianco, Petit Gouge, Pichons, Plant de Sechex, Plant Madame, Plant Seche, President, Preveiral, Preveiral blanco, Proveiral, Pruvera, Regalaboue, Riesling Grob, Rous Hette, Roussaou blanc, Rudeca Belina, Saboule Boey, Sadoulo Bouyer, Seestock Grob, Stajerska Belina, Tejer Szozeloe, Thalburger, Trompe Bouvier, Trompe Valet, Verdet, Verdin blanc, Vionnier, Weisse Traube, Weisser Heunisch, Weissgrobe, Weissheinsch, Wiessstock, Weisstock, Wippacher, Zoeld Hajnos
Countries of Origin	Some say Eastern Europe; some say Austria
Species	Vitis vinifera
References	Show 4 references Hide references Robinson, J. 2006. The Oxford Companion to Wine. Third edition. Oxford University Press. Vitis International Variety Catalogue (VIVC). Federal Centre for Breeding Research on Cultivated Plants (BAZ). Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof (IRZ). August, 2007. Link The former National Grape Registry (NGR) was initially compiled and annotated using the earlier version of the Vitis database. The VIVC underwent a significant update beginning in 2007. Corresponding updates to this Registry will be made as necessary. Bowers, J., J-M. Boursiquot, P. This, K. Chu, H. Johansson, C. Meredith. 1999. Historical Genetics: The Parentage of Chardonnay, Gamay, and other Wine Grapes of Northeastern France. Science 285: 1562-1565. Meredith, Carole. 2001. Grapevine Genetics: Probing the Past and Facing the Future, Agriculturae Conspectus Scientificus, vol. 66, no. 1: 21-25.
Berry Color	White
Uses	Wine
Comments	Gouais blanc is an ancient grape that was considered to be mediocre in terms of wine quality but was the prolific parent of many exceptional wine varieties in northeastern France. Gouais is an Eastern European variety (also known as Heunisch weiss) that is thought to be of Dalmatian origin. Gouais blanc and Pinot, which were both planted widely in France during the Middle Ages, crossed spontaneously at least 16 times to produce such varieties as Chardonnay, Gamay noir, Melon, Aligoté, and Auxerrois. Gouais blanc is genetically dissimilar to Pinot, which is one of the reasons that scientists cite for proposing an Eastern European origin for Gouais. That dissimilarity may also account for why the two varieties were able to cross so often and so successfully. Gouais blanc is recommended for modern grape breeding programs because of its high quality progeny and genetic diversity.

Gouais blanc 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.

	Gouais blanc 01
Registration Status	Registered Registered is the ultimate status in the California Department of Food & Agricultures Grapevine Registration & Certification Program. Registered selections have successfully completed all disease testing required by the regulations. Registered selections have also been confirmed as true to variety by experts using visual observations, DNA-based testing or both.
Protocol 2010	Qualifies for Protocol 2010.
Source	France
Treatments	Microshoot tip tissue culture therapy
Comments	Gouais blanc FPS 01 and 02 were imported for the Foundation Plant Services public collection in 2000 from the Ministere de l'Agriculture, Office National Interprofessionel des Vins (ONIVINS), Domain de Vassal, France. The name on the paperwork for Gouais blanc 01 was erroneously noted in FPS records at the time as Baii blanc. Jean-Michel Boursiquot indicates that the correct ONIVINS name for the selection is Bouillenc, a synonym for Gouais blanc. The name on the paperwork for Gouais blanc 02 was Bouillenc. The original plant material for Gouais blanc 01 tested positive for virus and underwent microshoot tip tissue culture disease elimination therapy at FPS in 2007. After successful completion of testing for the California Grapevine Registration & Certification Program, Gouais blanc 01 was planted in the FPS Classic Foundation Vineyard in 2011.
	Gouais blanc 02
Registration Status	Registered Registered is the ultimate status in the California Department of Food & Agricultures Grapevine Registration & Certification Program. Registered selections have successfully completed all disease testing required by the regulations. Registered selections have also been confirmed as true to variety by experts using visual observations, DNA-based testing or both.
Protocol 2010	Qualifies for Protocol 2010.
Source	Domaine de Vassal, France
Treatments	Microshoot tip tissue culture therapy
Comments	Gouais blanc FPS 01 and 02 were imported for the Foundation Plant Services public collection in 2000 from the Ministere de l'Agriculture, Office National Interprofessionel des Vins (ONIVINS), Domaine de Vassal, France. The name on the paperwork for Gouais blanc 01 was erroneously noted in FPS records at the time as Baii blanc. Jean-Michel Boursiquot indicates that the correct ONIVINS name for the selection is Bouillenc, a synonym for Gouais blanc. The name on the paperwork for Gouais blanc 02 was Bouillenc. The original plant material for both Gouais blanc 01 and 02 tested positive for virus and underwent microshoot tip tissue culture disease elimination therapy at FPS in 2007. After successful completion of testing for the California Grapevine Registration & Certification Program, Gouais blanc 02 was planted in the FPS Classic Foundation Vineyard in 2011.