page_title: Giró blanc
section_title: Relationship to other grapes
hierarchical_section_title: Giró blanc / Viticulture / Relationship to other grapes
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Grenache grapevariety
context_page_description: Giró blanc is a pink-skinned Spanish wine grape variety grown in the Balearic islands where it used in white wines produced under the Illes Balears appellation. Ampelographers believe that the grape is indigenous to Majorca with DNA profiling showing no known relationship to the Sardinian wine grape Girò or to Grenache which is known as Girò on Majorca.
  Today the grape is almost exclusively found on the island of Majorca with 6 hectares in cultivation in 2012.
context_section_description: Historically, Giró blanc was thought to be either a color mutation of Grenache, which is known as Giró in the Balearics, or in someway related to the red Italian wine grape Girò that is grown on the nearby island of Sardinia. The French ampelographer Pierre Galet was one of the first to dismiss these theories and speculate that Giró blanc was its own distinct variety. Galet's intuition was proven correct in the early 21st century when DNA profiling showed that Giró blanc was not related to either Grenache or Girò.
caption: Despite also being known as Giró in the Balearic islands, Grenache (pictured) has no known relationship with Giró blanc.
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