Cabernet Mitos

Cabernet Mitos grape

Cabernet Mitos is a German, newly bred red wine variety . It was created by crossing the Blaufränkisch and Teinturier du Cher varieties . The original information provided by breeders Helmut Schleip and Bernd HE Hill that it was a cross between Blaufränkisch and Cabernet Sauvignon has since been refuted by a DNA analysis.

It was presented in 1970 by the state teaching and research institute for viticulture and fruit growing in Weinsberg . On January 24, 2001, plant variety protection was granted by the Bundessortenamt . Since then, the area under vines has increased steadily. In Germany, 320 hectares (0.3% of the German vineyard area) were planted with the Cabernet Mitos grape variety in 2007. In 2006, 317 hectares of arable land were still planted, after 102 hectares were surveyed in 2001. Small stocks are also known in Switzerland . (1.7 hectares, as of 2007, source: Office fédéral de l'agriculture OFAG)

The vine has good winter hardiness, in terms of taste there are parallels to Cabernet Sauvignon. Cabernet Mitos is suitable for aging in barriques . The wine is rich in tannins and therefore requires longer storage.

In addition, the wine can be used to enhance the color of other red wines , as Cabernet Mitos can be assigned to the family of dye grapes . The berries of the dye grapes not only have a red skin, but also red, instead of gray or colorless pulp, so that a considerable proportion of red color pigments is also present in the juice, which makes the wine made from it particularly colorful. The color pigments are present throughout the plant tissue. As a result, the leaves also turn red relatively early. Cabernet Mitos 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.

Synonym: Breeding line number We 70-77-4 F

Origin: the vine is a cross between the Blaufränkisch × Teinturier du Cher grape varieties .

The Cabernet Cubin grape variety comes from a similar cross .

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

distribution

The vineyards in Germany are distributed among the individual growing areas as follows:

Wine region	Vineyards (hectares)
Ahr	1
to bathe	133
Francs	2
Hessian mountain road	3
Middle Rhine	-
Moselle	2
Near	4th
Palatinate	79
Rheingau	2
Rheinhessen	62
Saale-Unstrut	2
Saxony	below 0.5
Stargarder Land	-
Württemberg	29
Total Germany 2007	320

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

literature

Walter Hillebrand, Heinz Lott and Franz Pfaff: Paperback of the grape varieties . 13th edition. Fachverlag Fraund, Mainz, 2003, ISBN 3-921156-53-X .

Individual evidence

↑ “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
^ German Wine Institute : Statistics 2008/2009 . Mainz 2008 ( deutscheweine.de ( memento from March 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 444 kB ]).
^ German Wine Institute: Statistics 2007/2008 . Mainz 2007 ( deutscheweine.de ( memento from September 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 420 kB ]).
↑ German Wine Institute: Statistics 2004/2005 . Mainz 2004 ( deutscheweine.de ( memento from September 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 759 kB ]).
↑ 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