Blue burger

Blue burger
Synonyms	no
Breeding number	Klosterneuburg 181-2 or Zweigeltrebe 181-2
Art	Grape vine ( Vitis vinifera subsp. Vinifera )
Berry color	black blue
use	Red grape;
origin	Austria
breeder	Fritz Zweigelt , Higher Federal College and Federal Office for Viticulture and Fruit Growing
Breeding year	1923
VIVC no.	1457
ancestry
	Cross of ; Blue Portuguese × Blaufränkisch
List of grape varieties

Blauburger is a red wine that was bred by Fritz Zweigelt from 1923 on from a cross between Blauer Portugieser and Blaufränkisch at the Higher Federal College and Federal Office for Viticulture and Fruit Growing in Klosterneuburg .

Descent, origin

Cross of Blauer Portugieser x Blaufränkisch from Austria.

distribution

The variety is mainly found in Austria with an area of 750 ha (2015). 603 ha of which in Lower Austria, 117 ha in Burgenland and 20 ha in Styria.

In 2010 there was a worldwide cultivation area of 1340 ha. There is a larger cultivation area of 435 ha (2010) in Hungary and small areas in Germany (3 ha) and New Zealand (5 ha).

Ampelographic features

The shoot tip is bronzed green and black and smooth.
The shoots are strong.
The leaf is large, coarse, little lobed and bluntly serrated.
The grapes are large, conical with medium-sized, hard-skinned, black-blue colored and heavily frosted berries.

Maturity: early

Yield

The yield is high and regular. Yield regulation necessary for good wine quality.

Advantages and disadvantages

advantages

Brings very dark red wines.
Due to its neutral wine character, it is also well suited for blending with other varieties in order to improve the color intensity of the blending partner.
early maturity
rapid ripening
high flower firmness
makes little demands on soil and location
Insensitive to gray mold rot ( Botrytis cinerea ), powdery mildew , stem rot and stem paralysis .

disadvantage

is sensitive to winter frost
Often attacked by Esca and Phomopsis .

Expectations

Does not make any special demands on soil and climate.

Wine

The Blauburger makes red wines that are intense in color, velvety, ripen early and have a long shelf life. They have an intense but neutral red wine bouquet. If the yields are too high or the locations are not favorable, the wines are very weak in expression. For this reason, Blauburger is also used as a cover wine .

literature

Ferdinand Regner : Directory of Austrian quality wine varieties and their clones , 2008, LFZ Klosterneuburg
Karl Bauer, Ferdinand Regner , Barbara Schildberger: Viticulture . 9th edition. avBook published by Cadmos Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7040-2284-4 .
Pierre Galet : Dictionnaire encyclopédique des cépages . 1st edition. Hachette Livre, 2000, ISBN 2-01-236331-8 .
Klaus Egle: The Austrian Wine . Verlag Pichler, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85431-403-5 .
Jancis Robinson (Ed.): The Oxford Wine Lexicon . Hallwag, Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-8338-0691-9 .

Web links

Blauburger in the database Vitis International Variety Catalog of the Institute for Vine Breeding Geilweilerhof (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Karl Bauer, Ferdinand Regner , Barbara Schildberger: Weinbau , avBuch im Cadmos Verlag, Vienna, 9th edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-7040-2284-4
↑ Weingarten Baseline Survey 2015, Statistics Austria
↑ K. Anderson, NR Aryal: Database of Regional, National and Global Winegrape Bearing Areas by Variety, 2000 and 2010, Wine Economics Research Center, University of Adelaide, December 2013 (first revision April 2014) (second revision May 2014) (third Revision July 2014).

[Bauer-1] Karl Bauer, Ferdinand Regner , Barbara Schildberger: Weinbau , avBuch im Cadmos Verlag, Vienna, 9th edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-7040-2284-4

[2] Weingarten Baseline Survey 2015, Statistics Austria

[Anderson-3] K. Anderson, NR Aryal: Database of Regional, National and Global Winegrape Bearing Areas by Variety, 2000 and 2010, Wine Economics Research Center, University of Adelaide, December 2013 (first revision April 2014) (second revision May 2014) (third Revision July 2014).