{{Short description|Variety of grape}} {{Infobox grape variety | name = Cornalin d'Aoste or Humagne rouge | color = Noir | image = | caption = | species = ''Vitis vinifera'' | also_called = Humagne Rouge, and other synonyms | origin = Italy | hazards = | regions = Valais | notable_wines = }}
'''Cornalin d'Aoste''' or '''Humagne Rouge''' is a variety of red wine grape.<ref name="VIVC">[http://www.vivc.de/datasheet/dataResult.php?data=2838 Cornalin d'Aoste] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323134418/http://www.vivc.de/datasheet/dataResult.php?data=2838 |date=2012-03-23 }}, Vitis International Variety Catalogue, accessed on June 20, 2010</ref> It was named after the Aosta Valley in northwestern Italy where it was wrongly presumed to have originated, and where it is now almost extinct.<ref name="OCW CdA">{{cite encyclopedia |editor=Jancis Robinson |encyclopedia=Oxford Companion to Wine |edition=Third |title=Cornalin d'Aoste |year=2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=0-19-860990-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00janc/page/203 203] |url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00janc/page/203 }}</ref> It is primarily grown in the Valais region in Switzerland, where it is called Humagne Rouge, and the total Swiss plantations of the variety in 2009 stood at {{convert|128|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=July 7, 2011 }}</ref> The wines produced from the variety are wild, rustic and high in tannin.<ref name="OCW HR">{{cite encyclopedia |editor=Jancis Robinson |encyclopedia=Oxford Companion to Wine |edition=Third |title=Humagne Rouge |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>
That Cornalin d'Aoste and Humagne Rouge are in fact the same variety was established by DNA profiling at Changins in Switzerland and Aosta in Italy. At the same time, it was established that it is not related to the white variety Humagne Blanche. Researchers at UC Davis later established that Cornalin d'Aoste is an offspring of Rouge du Pays, also known as Cornalin du Valais.<ref name="VIVC"/><ref name="OCW CdA"/><ref name="OCW HR"/>
==Synonyms== Cornalin d'Aoste is also known under the synonyms Broblanc Humagne Rouge, Cornalin, Cornalin Aosta, Corniola, Humagne Rouge, and Petit Rouge.<ref name="VIVC"/>
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Category:Red wine grape varieties