Alden (grape variety)

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Alden
Breeding number NY 13035 or New York 13035
Art Grape vine ( Vitis vinifera subsp. Vinifera )
Berry color black
use
breeder Richard Wellington
Breeding year 1925
Launch 1952
VIVC no. 261
ancestry

Cross of
Ontario × Grosse Guillaume

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Alden is a red wine variety bred in 1925 by the American breeder Richard Wellington . It is a cross between Ontario and the Grosse Guillaume grape variety. It was launched on the market in 1952. It is an extremely complex breed in which genes from the wild grapes Vitis labrusca and Vitis vinifera are present. The new breed was developed at Cornell University in Geneva (the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Pomology and Viticulture , i.e. the grapevine breeding institute in New York State ). The university is located at the southern end of Cayuga Lake .

The grape variety is mostly used as a domestic grape or as a locally marketed table grape , where it benefits from the comparatively low proportion of acid . Due to their high earning power, the wines are usually thin and of moderate quality. Smaller stocks are known in New York (→ Viticulture in New York ) and Canada .

ancestry

Intersection of Ontario × Grosse Guillaume .

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

  • The cone-shaped grape is medium-sized, shouldered and loose berries. The oval berries are large (at times almost 2.5 cm long) and red and black in color.

The early growing grape variety ripens about 10 days after the Gutedel and is therefore early ripening within the red grape varieties so that it can ripen in cool locations. The variety is sensitive to gray mold rot and downy mildew . The variety is also very vigorous and high-yielding.

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