Red wine grape · Vitis vinifera
A southern red wine grape that the French cultivar reference traces to Provence, described there as drought-hardy and recorded by UC Davis as Cinsaut.
Plantgrape says this southern variety would appear to originally be from Provence, that in France it can officially be called Cinsault for propagation material, and that in Italy it is officially designated Ottavianello. UC Davis FPS independently lists France as its country of origin and Cinsaut (Black Malvoisie) as its TTB-approved name.
Plantgrape describes Cinsaut as fertile, productive and very drought resistant, but says that under fertile conditions yields are too high and the products obtained are then of low quality, and that it should preferably be grown on poor and dry soils where steady production can be achieved. These are attributed descriptions, not irrigation or site prescriptions.
Plantgrape describes Cinsaut as a not very vigorous vine with drooping branches that must be pruned short, that tends to produce many off shoots and suckers and must be carefully disbudded, and that may easily show chlorosis in a limestone area in spring; it lists susceptibility to wood diseases (esca, eutypa dieback), mites, grape moths and grey rot, and moderate sensitivity to powdery mildew. These are reference observations, not treatment advice.
Reference review · November 9, 2026
INRAE / IFV cultivar reference. Vine-trait observations belong to this reference's context; they are not universal planting or irrigation recommendations.
Independent institutional variety record used to cross-check cultivar identity and naming. It does not independently validate every agronomic observation in Plantgrape.
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.