Vitis Nathy-Sauvignac Vign'Happy Fruitality - Grapevine

Vign’happy® is a 2024 novelty offered in the Fruitality® range of fruit trees for easy-to-grow gourmets. Resulting from a selection program focused on resistance to fungal attacks, this variety perfectly meets the specifications by showing insensitivity to three of the main vine diseases. The plants yield a bountiful harvest that ripens in early September. The large grape clusters then take on a promising golden hue, and the berries reveal themselves to be sweet to taste. Easy to grow in most soils, it also tolerates drought well.

The cultivated Vine, Vitis vinifera, has given its name to the Vitaceae family, which includes 16 other genera, comprising 700 botanical species. While everyone knows the Virginia Creeper, or Parthenocissus, which adorns and colours our walls in autumn, other non-hardy genera only cross paths in apartments or in the greenhouses of botanical gardens, like the giant liana Tetrastigma voinierianum. The wine Vine has been growing wild for over 5000 years in North and Central America, Europe, and Central and Eastern Asia. This liana of the sylvestris subspecies lives alongside trees that serve as support for it to cling and climb several meters in forest edges. Introduced to Provence around 2600 years ago, the vine is cultivated on a large scale, and current varieties, known as grape varieties, are mainly derived from the vinifera subspecies. There are table varieties and others for wine, and some are mixed.
The Vine Nathy-Sauvignac Vign'Happy Fruitality is the result of a cross between two grape varieties, a Sauvignon and a Riesling, and resistant Vitis. The specifications of the Nathy selection program include a qualitative criterion, a high level of disease resistance, and agronomic stability of the subjects. Nathy Sauvignac is the first grape variety in the range, which will expand in the coming years as 22 others are nearing the end of evaluation and 1000 more are still in testing... It is a mixed variety, which will also be vinified for wine, suitable for both the oceanic terroirs of Bordeaux and the Mediterranean coast of Languedoc. The plant has a semi-erect growth, and can be pruned in the classic Guyot style or trained more freely on a pergola or trellis. It produces beautiful leaves, green-yellow in the juvenile stage that then turn green. The leaf blades have three main, weakly lobed lobes, with a regular and fairly pronounced dentate margin. The discreet spring flowering, green, bristly with white-yellow stamens, gradually evolves to give clusters of good size, with stems filling with medium-sized, ovoid-shaped berries. Initially greenish, the berries turn golden in the sun and as they ripen. The yield is rather high compared to other grape varieties, and the grapes are good to harvest from early September. Very high quality, the berries reveal a delicious sweet taste when bitten into, possibly an inheritance from the Riesling?...

With its classified high resistance to downy mildew and powdery mildew, the two major vine diseases, and very high resistance to black rot, which also attacks the foliage and clusters, Vign’happy® will delight enthusiasts eager to be able to organically grow their grapes. Rich in B vitamins, it is a source of fibres and manganese, well provided with antioxidants, and its sweet taste will delight your palate. For variety, plant it alongside a Kiwi, another fruit-bearing climber that will take over from your vine to offer you its tasty fruits at the end of the season. The Goji with its woody climbing stem that you can similarly train will surprise you with its small berries "of the five flavours" red or yellow depending on the variety you choose.