Humagne Blanche or Humagne is a white Swiss wine grape Humagne Blanc , Vitis International Variety Catalogue, accessed on June 20, 2010 planted primarily in the Valais region. The total Swiss plantations of the variety in 2009 stood at . Office fédéral de l’agriculture OFAG: Das Weinjahr 2009 / L'année d'viticole 2009
The grape produces a full bodied wine that is richer than Amigne and Petite Arvine, but more neutral in flavour than the latter.J. Robinson Jancis Robinson's Wine Course Third Edition pg 112 Abbeville Press 2003
DNA profiling at Changins in Switzerland and Aosta in Italy established that Humagne Blanche is not related to the red Swiss variety Humagne Rouge.
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