Hegel (grape variety)

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Leaves and grapes of the Hegel grape variety

Hegel is a red wine variety bred at the State Training and Research Institute for Viticulture and Fruit Growing Weinsberg . It was created in 1955 by crossing of Helfensteiner and Heroldrebe at the National Training and Research Institute for wine and fruit growing in the vineyard . The variety protection of the new breed was granted in 1994. The breeder of the grape variety is August Herold , who is also considered the breeder of the grape varieties Kerner (1929), Heroldrebe (1929) and Dornfelder (1955). The Hegel grape variety was dedicated to the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel .

In 2007 there was 10 hectares of vineyards in Germany , after 12 hectares were raised in 2001. Smaller cultivated areas are also known in Belgium. As a location for the vine are Pinot Noir plies suitable. The wine is full-bodied and delicately fruity.

Breeding number: We S 342 or Weinsberg S 342

Origin: the vine is a cross between the Helfensteiner x Heroldrebe grape varieties

distribution

The vineyards in Germany were distributed among the individual growing areas in 2007 as follows:

Wine region Vineyards (hectares)
Ahr 1
to bathe -
Francs -
Hessian mountain road -
Middle Rhine -
Moselle -
Near below 0.5
Palatinate -
Rheingau -
Rheinhessen 1
Saale-Unstrut -
Saxony -
Stargarder Land -
Württemberg 8th
Total Germany 2007 10

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. ↑ Descriptive list of varieties of the Federal Plant Variety Office 2008 (PDF; 519 kB)

literature

  • Pierre Galet : Dictionnaire encyclopédique des cépages . 1st edition. Hachette Livre, Paris 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 .

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