Valentin Blattner
{{Short description|Swiss winemaker}}
Valentin Blattner is a Swiss grape geneticist, grape breeder and winemaker of the Jura Mountains.{{cite web|url=http://www.omegavines.com/content/blattner-history|title=Blattner history|publisher=Omegavines.com|accessdate=3 June 2013}} Blattner has conducted very important research into finding disease-resistant grapes in viniculture since the 1980s,{{cite book|last=Hynes|first=Gary|title=Island Wineries of British Columbia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bPl_rYJKhqMC&pg=PA125|accessdate=3 June 2013|date=March 2011|publisher=TouchWood Editions|isbn=978-1-926741-26-0|page=125}} and is best known for developing Cabernet blanc in his Soyhières nursery in 1991.{{cite book|last=Pitte|first=Jean-Robert|title=Il desiderio del vino. Storia di una passione antica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0d0Nf309YrkC&pg=PA31|accessdate=3 June 2013|year=2010|publisher=EDIZIONI DEDALO|language=Italian|isbn=978-88-220-0572-4|page=31}} He crossed varieties of vinifera with other subspecies, which have since become known as "Blattners". 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.{{cite book|title=Wine East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5f9JAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=3 June 2013|year=2006|publisher=L&H Photojournalism|page=4}}
Varieties created or propagated
- Birstaler Muskat (Seyval blanc x Bacchus)Vitis International Variety Catalogue (VIVC) [https://www.vivc.de/index.php?r=passport%2Fview&id=17208 Birstaler Muskat] Accessed: October 22nd, 2021
- Cabernet blanc (Cabernet Sauvignon x Regent)Vitis International Variety Catalogue (VIVC) [https://www.vivc.de/index.php?r=passport%2Fview&id=22355 Cabernet blanc] Accessed: October 22nd, 2021
- Cabernet Jura (Medina x Kaberne Severnyi)Vitis International Variety Catalogue (VIVC) [https://www.vivc.de/index.php?r=passport%2Fview&id=22328 Cabernet Jura] Accessed: October 22nd, 2021
- Cabernet noir (a crossing of Cabernet Sauvignon with an unknown variety)Vitis International Variety Catalogue (VIVC) [https://www.vivc.de/index.php?r=passport%2Fview&id=23232 Cabernet noir] Accessed: October 22nd, 2021
- Cabertin (Cabernet Sauvignon x Regent)Vitis International Variety Catalogue (VIVC) [https://www.vivc.de/index.php?r=passport%2Fview&id=22329 Cabertin] Accessed: October 22nd, 2021
- Pinotin (Cabernet Sauvignon x Regent)Vitis International Variety Catalogue (VIVC) [https://www.vivc.de/index.php?r=passport%2Fview&id=19994 Pinotin] Accessed: October 22nd, 2021
- Reselle (Bacchus x Seyval blanc)Vitis International Variety Catalogue (VIVC) [https://www.vivc.de/index.php?r=passport%2Fview&id=19058 Reselle] Accessed: October 22nd, 2021
- Petite Milo (unknown x Resistenzpartner crossing) grown in British Columbia and Nova Scotia, Canada{{Cite web|url=https://www.vivc.de/index.php?r=passport%2Fview&id=27114|title = VIVC}}
- 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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