Grape Variety: Garnacha tinta

Variety Name	Garnacha tinta
TTB Approved Name(s)	Garnacha (Grenache, Grenache noir)
Common Synonyms	Garnacha, Garnacho tinto, Grenache, Grenache noir
All Synonyms	Abundante, Abundante de Reguengos, Aleante, Aleante di Rivalto, Aleante Poggiarelli, Alekantina, Alicant blau, Alicante, Alicante de Pays, Alicante di Spagna, Alicante Grenache, Alicante noir, Alicante Roussilon, Alicantina, Aragonais, Aragones, Bernacha negra, Bois Jaune, Cannoao, Cannonaddu, Cannonadu Nieddu, Cannonau, Cannonatu, Cannonau Selvaggio, Cannonao, Canonazo, Cannono, Carignane Rosso, Carignan rouge, Carignane rousse, Elegante, Francese, Garnaccho negro, Garnacha, Garnacha Comun, Garnacha del País, Garnacha negra, Garnacha País, Garnacha roja, Garnacho, Garnatxa negra, Garnatxa ni, Garnatxa País, Garnatxa tinta, Girondet, Gironet, Granaccia, Granacha, Granaxa, Granaxo, Grenache, Grenache a Fleurs Femelles, Grenache Crni, Grenache de Alicante, Grenache de Kaspero, Grenache noir, Grenache rouge, Iladoner, Kek Grenache, Lladoner, Lladoner Aragonase, Lladoner negro, Mencida, Navaro, Navarra, Navarre de la Dordogne, Navarret de la Dordogne, Navarro, Negra, Negru Calvese, Nessuno, Nieddu, Ranconnat, Red Grenache, Redondal, Retagliadu, Rivesaltes, Rivos Altos, Rool Grenache, Rousillon, Rousillon tinto, Roussillon, Rouvaillard, Sans Pareil, Santa Maria de Alcantara, Tentillo, Tinta, Tinta Aragoneza, Tintella, Tintilla, Tinto, Tinto Aragon, Tinto Aragones, Tinto Menudo, Tinto Navalcarnero, Tintore di Spagna, Tintoria, Tocai Rosso, Toledana, Uva di Spagna, Vernaccia di Serrapetrona, Vernaccia nera
Countries of Origin	Spain
Species	Vitis vinifera
Institution	ITACyl
References	Show 8 references Hide references Christensen, L et al. 2003. Wine Grape Varieties in California. University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Publication 3419. Galet, P. 1998. Grape Varieties and Rootstock Varieties. Oenoplurimedia sarl. Chateau de Chaintre, France. 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. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB). Code of Federal Regulations Title 27 Part 4.91 List of approved prime names. Link Foundation Plant Services Grape Program Newsletter (2006) Link Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca, y Alimentacion. Undated. Variedades de vid, Registro de variedades comerciales. Secretaria General Tecnica, Centro de Publicaciones, Paseo de la Infanta Isabel, Madrid, Spain. Alburquerque et al. 2006. Descripción y caracterización agronómica de 28 variedades tintas de vid en Castilla y León. Junta de Castilla y León, Instituto Tecnológico Agrario, Valladolid, España.
Berry Color	Black
Uses	Wine
Comments	Garnacha tinta is a variety that originated in Spain, probably in the Aragón region. This variety is known in France as Grenache noir. Separate related varieties include Garnacha erguida, Garnacha gris and Garnacha Peluda.

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Garnacha tinta 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.

	Garnacha tinta 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.
Source	Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León (ITACyl), Valladolid, Spain, in 2000
Treatments	None, RSP+ , Tissue Culture Excision
Comments	This selection was one of a group of clones that came to FPS in 2000 from the ITA-CyL clonal selection program in Spain. The source material for this selection was CL-52, which stands for 'Castilla y León 52'.
	Garnacha tinta 03
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.
Source	Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León (ITACyl), Valladolid, Spain
Treatments	None , Tissue Culture Excision
Comments	This selection was donated to the public grapevine collection at Foundation Plant Services in 2006 by ITACyL in Spain. The clone is CL 55 from the clonal selection program in Valladolid, Spain. The original material completed testing to qualify for the California Registration & Certification Program in 2012.
	Garnacha tinta 214
Treatments	Tissue Culture Excision
Comments	This proprietary selection was imported to the United States in 2005 by Jorge Böhm, Viveiros Plansel, S.A., in Portugal. The material is Plansel clone 214-4 which was collected from an anonymous nursery in Spain. The selection underwent microshoot tip tissue culture therapy at FPS in 2014 and qualified for the Russell Ranch Foundation Vineyard in 2018. Garnacha tinta PLANSEL® 214.1 was donated to the FPS public grapevine collection in 2019.