Editing Petit Verdot (section)

==History==
[[Image:Petit Verdot.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A glass of Petit Verdot]]

Petit Verdot probably predates Cabernet Sauvignon in Bordeaux, but its origins are unclear. There are records of it in the eighteenth century,<ref name="SLSA">{{cite web |last=Radden |first=Rosemary |title=Grapes and Wines of the World |location=Adelaide, S. Australia |publisher=The State Library of South Australia |url=http://www.winelit.slsa.sa.gov.au/grapeswines.htm |access-date=2007-04-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807005112/http://www.winelit.slsa.sa.gov.au/grapeswines.htm |archive-date=2007-08-07}}</ref> but its characteristics suggest an origin in much hotter climes than the [[Gironde]]. It is likely that it originates from the [[Pyrénées-Atlantiques]] where it was possibly domesticated from wild grapevines.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Robinson |first=Jancis |title=Wine Grapes: A Complete Guide to 1,368 Vine Varieties, including their Origins and Flavours |year=2012 |isbn=9781846144462}}</ref>

It is one parent of [[Tressot]], the other parent being [[Duras (grape)|Duras]], a grape from the upper [[Tarn (river)|Tarn valley]] near Toulouse.<ref>[http://www.vivc.de/datasheet/dataResult.php?data=12640 Vitis International Variety Catalogue: Tressot Noir] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308191109/http://www.vivc.de/datasheet/dataResult.php?data=12640 |date=2012-03-08 }}, accessed on December 15, 2009</ref> It's possible that both were brought to the region by the Romans as they moved inland from the Mediterranean.