Jaen is an indigenous Portuguese grape confusingly cognate with a Spanish variety, which shares little of the same character and so is unlikely to be the same.
JAEN: Red wine grape widely grown in central Spain and also in Portugal. This variety is also found in Australia under the alias name Doradillo and Blanquette.
JAEN: Red wine grape widely grown in central Spain and also in Portugal. Recent DNA typing by spanish researchers (1999) has found that the Mencía variety is a clone.
See also: Varietal wine, Acid, Ripening, Harvest, White
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