# Humagne Blanche

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{{Short description|Variety of grape}}
{{Infobox grape variety
| name          = Humagne Blanche
| color         = Blanc
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| caption       = 
| species       = ''[Vitis vinifera](/source/Vitis_vinifera)''
| also_called   = Humagne, Humagne Blanc
| origin        = [Switzerland](/source/Switzerland)
| hazards       = 
| regions       = [Valais](/source/Valais)
| notable_wines = 
}}

'''Humagne Blanche''' or '''Humagne''' is a white [Swiss wine](/source/Swiss_wine) [grape](/source/grape_(wine))<ref name="VIVC">[http://www.vivc.de/datasheet/dataResult.php?data=5450 Humagne Blanc] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422105704/http://www.vivc.de/datasheet/dataResult.php?data=5450 |date=2012-04-22 }}, [Vitis International Variety Catalogue](/source/Vitis_International_Variety_Catalogue), accessed on June 20, 2010</ref> planted primarily in the [Valais](/source/Valais) region. The total Swiss plantations of the variety in 2009 stood at {{convert|30|ha}}.<ref>[http://www.weinlandschweiz.ch/files/weinjahr_2009.pdf Office fédéral de l’agriculture OFAG: Das Weinjahr 2009 / L'année d'viticole 2009] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707004844/http://www.weinlandschweiz.ch/files/weinjahr_2009.pdf |date=2011-07-07 }}</ref>

The grape produces a [full bodied](/source/body_(wine)) wine that is richer than [Amigne](/source/Amigne) and [Petite Arvine](/source/Petite_Arvine), but more neutral in flavour than the latter.<ref name="Robinson pg 112">J. Robinson ''Jancis Robinson's Wine Course'' Third Edition pg 112 Abbeville Press 2003 {{ISBN|0-7892-0883-0}}</ref><ref name="OCW">{{cite encyclopedia |editor=[Jancis Robinson](/source/Jancis_Robinson) |encyclopedia=[Oxford Companion to Wine](/source/Oxford_Companion_to_Wine) |edition=Third |title=Humagne Blanche |year=2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=0-19-860990-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00janc/page/347 347] |url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00janc/page/347 }}</ref>

[DNA profiling](/source/DNA_profiling) at [Changins](/source/Changins) in Switzerland and [Aosta](/source/Aosta) in Italy established that Humagne Blanche is not related to the red Swiss variety [Humagne Rouge](/source/Humagne_Rouge).<ref name="OCW"/>

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Category:White wine grape varieties

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