Cabernet carbon

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Cabernet Carbon is a fungus- resistant red wine variety bred in 1983 . Cabernet Carbon was at the State Weinbauinstitut Freiburg by Norbert Becker from the varieties Cabernet Sauvignon (as parent variety, ♀), and Bronner (as father places ♂) crossed . The Bronner grape variety, in turn, emerged from the parent varieties Merzling (as mother variety , ♀) and Gm 6494 (as father population, ♂). Despite the influence of the Vitis amurensis grape variety over the Gm 6494 variety, Cabernet Carbon does not belong to the hybrid grape family .

Cabernet Carbon was carried by the breeder under the breeding line number FR 377-83 r, applied for in 2000 at the Bundessortenamt in Hanover (BSA) for plant variety protection and entry in the list of varieties . The variety protection was granted in 2003 and the variety was officially assigned to the species Vitis vinifera , which also means that your wines may be marketed as quality wines in certain growing areas within the scope of the European market organization . The BSA is expected to complete the variety registration process in 2008.

See also the article Viticulture in Germany and the list of grape varieties .

Properties of the vine

The leaves are medium-sized, three- to five-lobed and strong green. The grapes are elongated, cylindrical. Budding, flowering and the onset of ripening occur about a week later than with the Blue Pinot Noir. The frost resistance is considered very good and clearly exceeds that of Riesling . The variety claims slightly better locations than the Blauer Spätburgunder .

Cabernet Carbon is a variety of the noble grapevine . 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.

Properties of the wine

The red wines are strong, colored tannins and rich in tannins . They correspond to the Romanesque wine style (alcohol, tannin, wort, usually characterized by barrique aging), as it is typically characterized by the Cabernet Sauvignon.

synonym

The Cabernet Carbon grape variety is also listed under the breeding number FR 377-83 r.

ancestry

To cross this variety, Norbert Becker used the parent varieties Cabernet Sauvignon as mother and Bronner as father, which in turn emerged from the crossing of Merzling × Gm 6494 (or Geisenheim 6494). Gm 6494 was a seedling population that was crossed in 1964 by Professor V. Kraus in what was then Czechoslovakia from the grape varieties Zarya Severa × St. Laurent . Prof. Kraus offered the seedlings to Prof. Dr. Helmut Becker (1927–1990), who worked at the Geisenheim research institute at the time, recognized the importance of this material and further processed it in breeding in progeny tests. The seedling Gm 6494-5 was selected from the seedling population Gm 6494 due to its special performance and was later propagated and put into practice under the variety name Rondo as an independent grape variety.

Norbert Becker erroneously researched Saperawi Severni instead of Zarya Severa as the mother variety for the seedling population, which was only given the designation Gm 6494 in Geisenheim, when Prof. V. Kraus was crossed in 1964 . A differentiated follow-up research by N. Becker's successor Volker Joerger together with colleagues from the Geisenheim research institute was able to reveal the error and the true parenthood has now been clarified in specialist circles since 2003. However, these findings could no longer be included in the 13th edition of the Taschenbuch der Weinsorten .

Parentage: Cabernet Sauvignon × ( Merzling × ( Zarya Severa × St. Laurent ) (vulgo Bronner))

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literature

  • Walter Hillebrand, Heinz Lott and Franz Pfaff: Taschenbuch der Rebsorten , 13th edition, Fachverlag Fraund, Mainz 2003, ISBN 978-3-921156-53-7