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    Mondeuse Noire

    A red grape from Savoie, giving deeply coloured, tannic, fragrant wines with good acidity that can age. It is a cross of Mondeuse Blanche and Tressot, and so shares a parent with Syrah.

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    A Syrah relative

    Genetic analysis in Montpellier made Mondeuse Noire a cross of Mondeuse Blanche and Tressot, confirmed by markers in VIVC. Syrah also has Mondeuse Blanche as a parent (with Dureza), so the two are half-siblings; one of Mondeuse's old synonyms is Grosse Syrah. Tressot is also a parent of Duras.

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    In Savoie

    The Savoie specification says the vine is demanding and keeps to fine screes with regular water. The reds of Arbin and Saint-Jean-de-la-Porte are made from Mondeuse alone, with firm tannins, spice and black fruit. The file also cites Columella's allobrogicum wine and Pliny's vitis allobrogica and suggests they were probably close to the Mondeuses. In France the variety fell from 1,066 ha in 1958 to 173 ha in 1988 and stood at 298 ha in 2018.

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