Valentin Blattner at Château Duvivier

Valentin Blattner is a Swiss grape geneticist, grape breeder and winemaker of the Jura Mountains.^[1] Blattner has conducted very important research into finding disease-resistant grapes in viniculture since the 1980s,^[2] and is best known for developing Cabernet blanc in his Soyhières nursery in 1991.^[3] He crossed varieties of vinifera with other subspecies, which have since become known as "Blattners".^[2] In making his wines, he relies on traditional field breeding techniques. He has a position at the Institute of Ecology and Grape Breeding in Switzerland.^[4]

Varieties created or propagated

• Birstaler Muskat (Seyval blanc x Bacchus)^[5]
• Cabernet blanc (Cabernet Sauvignon x Regent)^[6]
• Cabernet Jura (Medina x Kaberne Severnyi)^[7]
• Cabernet noir (a crossing of Cabernet Sauvignon with an unknown variety)^[8]
• Cabertin (Cabernet Sauvignon x Regent)^[9]
• Pinotin (Cabernet Sauvignon x Regent)^[10]
• Reselle (Bacchus x Seyval blanc)^[11]
• Petite Milo (unknown x Resistenzpartner crossing) grown in British Columbia and Nova Scotia, Canada^[12]
• Epicure (Cabernet Sauvignon x Resistenzpartner) grown in British Columbia, Canada named after Victorian Epicure a company in Victoria BC that lent much support in the development of the Blattner crosses in Canada
• Cabernet Foch (Cabernet Sauvignon x Foch crossing) grown in British Columbia and Nova Scotia, Canada
• Amiel (Cabernet Sauvignon x Resistenzpartner crossing) grown in British Columbia, Canada. Early ripening white grape ripening about the same time as Ortega in the BC coastal climate.
• Labelle (Cabernet Foch x Resistenzpartner crossing) grown in British Columbia, Canada. A very early ripening red grape.

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