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    Aligoté

    Vitis vinifera L.

    Aligoté is a grape variety with white berries.1

    Its country of origin is France.2

    In 2023 it covered 24,990 hectares of bearing vineyards worldwide, ranking 33 of 1497 varieties in the database.2

    The largest area is in Moldova: 7,765 ha (31% of the world total), across 15 countries.2

    Between 2000 and 2023 its area shrank by 30%.2

    VIVC lists its parents as Heunisch Weiss × Pinot, a pedigree confirmed by DNA markers.1

    VIVC records 43 other names for it.1

    vinoluma engraving: a schematic leaf, not a botanical description of the variety.
    Berry skin (VIVC)
    white1
    Origin
    France2
    Area, 2023
    24,990 ha2
    World rank
    33 / 14972
    VIVC
    № 3121
    parentHeunisch Weiss
    parentPinot
    Aligoté

    confirmed by DNA markers (VIVC)

    Area by country

    1. Moldova7,765 ha
    2. Russia6,410 ha
    3. Romania5,110 ha
    4. Ukraine2,888 ha
    5. France1,983 ha
    6. Bulgaria502 ha
    7. Kazakhstan277 ha
    8. Canada30 ha
    9. Switzerland23 ha
    10. Serbia0.6 ha
    11. the United States0.4 ha
    12. Belgium0.2 ha

    Area, 2023

    35,66836,12026,92924,9902000201020162023
    World area, ha 2

    Where Aligoté grows

    1. OriginFrance
    2. AreaMoldova
    3. AreaRussia
    4. AreaRomania
    5. AreaUkraine
    6. AreaFrance
    7. AreaBulgaria
    8. AreaKazakhstan
    9. AreaCanada
    10. AreaSwitzerland
    11. AreaSerbia

    Countries from the University of Adelaide database; dots mark country centres, not regions.

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    Other names

    Aligote · Aligote (W) · Aligote B · Mukhranuli · Aligotay · Aligote Bijeli · Aligote Blanc · Aligotte · Aliqote · Alligotay · Alligote · Alligotet · Beaunie · Beaunois · Blanc De Troyes · Bourgogne-aligote

    Parents

    Other varieties from France

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    Sources

    1. VIVC passport no. 312. Vitis International Variety Catalogue (VIVC), Julius Kühn-Institut, 2026. level 2
    2. Database of Regional, National and Global Winegrape Bearing Areas by Variety, 2000 to 2023. Anderson K., Nelgen S., Puga G. Wine Economics Research Centre, University of Adelaide (CC BY 4.0), 2026. level 3