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White wine grape · Vitis vinifera

Aligoté

A white wine grape grown in Burgundy, with Pinot and Gouais blanc parentage described in the French cultivar reference.

Origin
France; Burgundy cultivation documented
Wine-grape group
White
Names in this reference
Aligoté · Aligote · Aligotay · Blanc de Troyes

Vine characteristics

Burgundy and parentage

Plantgrape describes Aligoté as grown in Burgundy and, from published genetic studies, as a cross of Pinot and Gouais blanc. UC Davis FPS independently lists France as its country of origin and records the pedigree as Pinot × Heunisch Weiss. The sources' parent names are retained as written rather than treated as a new breeding claim.

Fertility and northern-area context

Plantgrape describes a fertile variety adapted to northern areas and frequently affected by millerandage. These are source-attributed observations, not a latitude boundary, frost rating or prediction for a new vineyard.

Regional research context

Plantgrape describes relatively little powdery-mildew impact but susceptibility to downy mildew and grey rot. UC Davis separately documents French material imported to Davis in 1939. Historical selection introductions are not performance trials, and the disease descriptions are not treatment recommendations.

Reference review · November 9, 2026

Sources & scope

Cultivar descriptions are source-attributed reference material, not site prescriptions. No numeric soil-moisture threshold, disease diagnosis, regional suitability guarantee or GroundWorx performance claim is established here.