Aubun

The aubun is a Cépage of black grape France.

Origin and geographical distribution

The aubun is probably originating in the Vaucluse department. The type of vine is recommended or authorized in the majority of the French wine departments (Ardeche, Aude, Aveyron, Corsica, Gers, the Gironde, Herault, Landes, Loire-Atlantique, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Maine-et-Loire, Nievre, the Pyrenees Atlantiques, the Pyrenees Orientales, Tarn-et-Garonne and VAr). In France it currently covers 1.411 hectares (2004) passing 5.822 hectares in 1979.

It is cultivated a little in Australia and California.

Characters ampelographic

End of the young white cottony branch with dyed with carmine edging.
Young fluffy sheets, yellowish with bronzed beaches.
adult Sheets, 5 to 7 lobes with a broad and concave side sine, a petiolar sine in more or less closed quadrant, teeth ogival, broad, a cottony limb - pubescent.

Farming aptitudes

Maturity is of third time: 25 days after the chasselas.

Technological potential

The bunches are average or rather large and the bays are of intermediate size. The bunch is cylindrical and compact. The type of vine is vigorous. It is sensitive to the Coulure and the Millerandage. It has a good resistance to the Oïdium, the Mildiou, the gray Pourriture and with frozen of winter.

Two clones were approved: clone 168 and clone 350.

Little coloured red wine, of average quality and enough alcoholic.

Synonyms

carignan of Bedoin, carignan of Gigondas, counoise (by error because confused with true Counoise), gross rogettaz, gueyne, morescola, murescola (in Corsica), moustardier, moutardier, quenoise