21Chardonnay is the basis of some of the world's most iconic wines and its success is 22 phenotypic trait. We produced a high-quality genome assembly for Chardonnay, and using 47 re-sequencing data for 15 popular clones, were able to identify a large selection of markers 48 that are unique to at least one clone. We identified mutations that may confer phenotypic 49 effects, and were able to identify clones from material independently sourced from nurseries 50 and vineyards. The marker detection framework we describe for authenticity testing would 51 be applicable to other grapevine cultivars or even other agriculturally important woody-plant 52 crops that are vegetatively propagated such as fruit orchards. Finally, we show that the 53 Chardonnay genome contains extensive evidence for parental inbreeding, such that its 54 parents, Gouais blanc and Pinot noir, may even represent first-degree relatives. 55A total of 614 primary contigs (397 Mb) and 1502 haplotigs (305 Mb) were confidently placed 130 in chromosomal order using the PN40024 scaffold as a reference. To analyse the degree 131 and distribution of heterozygosity across the genome, read depth (from mapped RS II 132 subreads), heterozygous variant density (from mapped Illumina short-reads) and phasing 133 coverage (from contig alignments) was calculated for the assembly (Fig 1A). 134Chromosomes 2, 3, 7, 15, 17, and 18 contain runs of homozygosity greater than 500 kb 135 (intersect of lack of phasing coverage, double read-depth, low heterozygous variant density). 136There are a further 22.8 Mb that lacked phasing coverage, had low heterozygous variant 137 density, and median read-depth. These regions presumably result from either hemizygosity 138 of these genomic regions, or undetected allelic duplicates remaining in the primary contigs. 139