Grape Variety: Pinot noir Précoce

Variety Name	Pinot noir Précoce
Common Synonyms	Frühburgunder, Pinot Précoce Pinot Precoce, Pinot Precoce noir
All Synonyms	Augsttraube, Augustclevner, Augustiner blau, Augustklevner, Augusttraube, Black Inly, Blaue Jakobstraube, Blauer Fruehburgunder, Blauer Klevner, Burgundac Crni Rani, Burgunder Frueh blau, Burgunder Frueher blauer, Champagner Schwarz, Claevner Frueh, Clevner Fruehburgunder, Frauentagtraube, Fruehburgunder, Fruehburgunder blau, Fruehe Jakobstraube, Frueher Blauer Burgunder, Frueher Blauer Klevner, Frueher Claevner, Fruehreifer Schwarzer Burgunder, Fruehtraube, Frühburgunder, Fruheburgunder, Gospinsza, Ischia, Iskiya, Jakobstraube, Jacobi, Jacobitraube, Jacobstraube, Jacobszoeloe, Jakobstraube, Jakubske, Jakubske Skore, Juliusi Szoeloe, July Grape, Kleiner Burgunder, Korai Kek Kisburgundi, Laurenzitraube, Laurenziustraube, Loerinc Szoeloe, Lujega, Luviana Veronese, Maddalena nera, Madeleine noir, Madeleine noire, Magdalenentraube, Magdolna Szoeloe, Modra Klevanyka, Moehrchen, Morillon Hatif, Morillon noir Hatif, Morillon Parisien, Noir Précoce de Genes, Noir Précoce de Hongrie, Noir Printannier, Petit noir Précoce, Petit Noirin, Pineau de Juillet, Pineau Madeleine, Pineau noir, Pino Cornij Ranij, Pino Rannii, Pinot Hatif de Rilly, Pinot Madeleine, Pinot Nero Précoce, Pinot noir Précoce, Pinot noir Precose, Pinot Plant de Juillet, Pinot Pommier, Pinot Rannii, Pinot Timpuriu, Plant Printanier, Précoce noir, Raisin de Juillet, Raisin de la Madelaine, Raisin de St. Jean, Raisin Précoce, Rani Modri Burgrendac, Roter Assmannschaeuser, Rouci, Saint Jacques, Schwarzer Assmannshaeuser, Schwarzer Burgunder, St. Jean, Szent Anna Szoeloe, Tidlig Bla Burgunder, Tuannes Negres, Uva de Trivolte, Uva di Tre Volte, Uva di Tri Volte, Vigne d'Ischia, Zherna Mushza
Countries of Origin	France
Species	Vitis vinifera
References	Show 3 references Hide references 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. Moulton, G.A. and J. King. 2012. Growing Wine Grapes in Maritime Western Washington. Washington State University Extension, EB2001, Rev. 2012. Robinson, Jancis, Julia Harding, José Vouillamoz. WINE GRAPES. First U.S. edition, 2012. Harper Collins Publishers, East 53rd Street, New York, New York.
Berry Color	Black
Uses	Table,Wine
Comments	Berries on this Pinot noir mutation reportedly develop color at least two weeks ahead of regular Pinot noir. This cultivar is popular in Germany as Frühburgunder.

Pinot noir Précoce 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.

	Pinot noir Précoce 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	Centre for Plant Health, CFIA, Sidney, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Treatments	None
Comments	This selection came to Foundation Plant Services, UC Davis, in 2013 from the CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) foundation vineyard at the Centre for Plant Health at Sidney, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. This plant material came to the CFIA collection from France. This cultivar is a very old Pinot noir mutation which has smaller berries and ripens two weeks earlier than traditional Pinot noir. The selection successfully completed testing to qualify for the FPS Classic Foundation Vineyard in 2015.