Bacchus (grape variety)

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Bacchus: grape

Bacchus or early Scheurebe is a white wine variety that is a cross between ( Silvaner  x  Riesling ) and Müller-Thurgau . The information provided by the breeder about the parents of the cross has been confirmed by DNA analysis in the meantime. Peter Morio and Bernhard Husfeld bred them at the Geilweilerhof Institute for Vine Breeding in 1933. They were approved in Germany in 1972 when they were entered in the list of varieties . The grape variety is mainly grown in Germany and England . Small stands are also known in Switzerland (1.6 hectares, as of 2007).

Bacchus owes its popularity among winemakers in particular to the fact that - in contrast to Riesling - it is an early-ripening grape variety that reaches a very high degree of ripeness and can therefore also be grown in locations that are largely unsuitable for Riesling. The wines obtained from it are aromatic ( aromas in the wine ) and fruity, but only when the grapes are fully ripe. However, the wines sometimes lack acidity , which is why they are often blended with Müller-Thurgau. She enriches their relatively neutral wines with their fruit and their bouquet - together they are an integral part of the Liebfrauenmilch, which is often not very popular among wine connoisseurs .

Bacchus is a variety of the noble grapevine ( Vitis vinifera ). It has hermaphroditic flowers and is therefore self-fruiting. In viticulture , the economic disadvantage of not having to grow male plants that produce yield is avoided. Valentin Blattner used Bacchus to breed the varieties Birstaler Muskat and Réselle from a cross with Seyval Blanc .

See also the articles Viticulture in Germany and Viticulture in the United Kingdom and the list of grape varieties .

Synonyms: Geilweilerhof 33-29-133, GF. 33-29-133 and early Scheurebe

Parentage: ( Silvaner x Riesling ) x Müller-Thurgau

distribution

Leaves and grapes of the Bacchus grape variety

In Germany, 1,732 hectares (= 1.7% of the German vineyard area) were planted with the Bacchus grape variety in 2015 . In 2006 there were still 2,113 hectares of arable land, after 3,126 hectares were surveyed in 1999. The main growing areas are Rheinhessen (565 hectares, as of 2015) and Franconia (733 hectares). The cultivation of this variety is falling sharply in Germany.

Wine region Vineyards (hectares)
Ahr below 0.5
to bathe 45
Francs 742
Hessian mountain road below 0.5
Middle Rhine 2
Moselle 87
Near 156
Palatinate 153
Rheingau 1
Rheinhessen 828
Saale-Unstrut 29
Saxony 8th
Stargarder Land -
Württemberg 7th
total Germany 2007 2061

Source: Vineyard statistics from March 13, 2008, Federal Statistical Office , Wiesbaden 2008 in Descriptive Variety List of the Federal Variety Office 2008, page 198ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Focus on the crossbreeding parents of German new varieties of vines - what does the genetic fingerprint say”, by Erika Maul, Fritz Schumann, Bernd HE Hill, Frauke Dörner, Heike Bennek, Valérie Laucou, Jean-Michel Boursiquot, Thierry Lacombe, Eva Zyprian, Rudolf Eibach and Reinhard Töpfer; in "German Wine Yearbook 2013" (64th year) - pages 128 to 142, ISBN 978-3-8001-7783-7
  2. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: The Wine Year 2008 (PDF) , published by Office fédéral de l'agriculture OFAG@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.blw.admin.ch
  3. ↑ German Wine Institute : Statistics 2016/2017 . Mainz 2017 ( deutscheweine.de [PDF; 706 kB ] Planted vineyards and important grape varieties according to growing areas in 2015).
  4. ^ German Wine Institute : Statistics 2007/2008 . Mainz 2007 ( deutscheweine.de ( memento from September 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 430 kB ]).
  5. ↑ German Wine Institute : Statistics 2004/2005 . Mainz 2004 ( deutscheweine.de ( memento from September 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 777 kB ]).
  6. ↑ Descriptive list of varieties of the Federal Plant Variety Office 2008 (PDF; 519 kB)

Web links

literature

  • C. u. F. Lange: Das Weinlexikon , Fischer Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-596-15867-2
  • Pierre Galet : Dictionnaire encyclopédique des cépages . 1st edition. Hachette Livre, 2000, ISBN 2-01-236331-8 .
  • Walter Hillebrand, Heinz Lott and Franz Pfaff: Paperback of the grape varieties . 13th edition. Fachverlag Fraund, Mainz, 2003, ISBN 3-921156-53-X .