Neuburger

Neuburger
Synonyms	see section synonyms
Art	Grape vine ( Vitis vinifera subsp. Vinifera )
Berry color	yellow-green
use	White grape;
origin	Lower Austria, Wachau
known since	^
VIVC no.	8501
ancestry
	Random crossing of ; Roter Veltliner × Sylvaner
List of grape varieties

Neuburger is an autochthonous Austrian white wine variety . The vigorously growing variety can make good use of barren, dry vineyards. The wines tend to be less acidic and have a nutty aroma and are reminiscent of wines from the White Burgundy . The acreage is declining sharply in Austria . There are two reasons. On the one hand, it delivers excellent wine quality, which, however , can hardly compete with Grüner Veltliner . On the other hand, it is weakened by a disease - short shoots - which causes the vines to die off.

origin

The Neuburger is a variety that probably originated in the Wachau .

According to legend, the winemakers Franz Machherndl and Christoph Ferstl, who also worked as boatmen for a while, fished a bundle of vines from the Danube near Oberarnsdorf in the Wachau around 1850 . The vines were planted in the "Ecklgrund" near the St. Peter cellar. A few years later the first wine could already be pressed. The early ripening and the rather low acidity wine stood out positively compared to the varieties of that time and found attention and dissemination among the winemakers. The new vine in Spitz / Danube was planted on the Burgberg (popularly known as the Thousand Bucket Hill). The vine was brought from Arnsdorf to Spitz an der Donau (opposite on the northern bank of the Danube). Today the ruin of the rear building stands here , which is popularly known simply as the "castle". The vine was first called Burgrebe and then Neuburger. A contribution by Wilhelm Bauer from the Austrian Wine Book reveals that the Neuburger vines probably came from the Spitzer Graben, a side valley opposite the site, which is planted with different varieties.

The parent varieties ( Roter Veltliner x Sylvaner ) are autochthonous grape varieties in Austria. An indication that the variety originated in the region in and around the Wachau. One can also assume that the variety was already present in the region in the vineyards in 1860. There used to be no single-variety vineyards. The vigorous growth of the Neuburger may have been the reason that this was often used in the form of bundles of vines to secure shiploads and so may have been lost. In the city archives of Neuburg an der Donau (Bavaria) there is a note from the year 1768: Two hundred oaks detached from the electoral Auwalde for wine presses to Austria and Hungary, living wine rods brought along and several brought from there. There is a note that wine rods were carried along and brought to and from Neuburg an der Donau.

The parent varieties are certain from genetic engineering studies and that the Neuburger variety was not previously known in any neighboring country. One can assume that the variety has its origin in the Wachau, possibly from the Spitzer Graben, as there are extreme conditions there on the steep terraced areas.

ancestry

Natural cross of Roter Veltliner x Sylvaner , both autochthonous grape varieties in Austria.

Ampelographic features

The shoot tips are light green, smooth and shiny, slightly bronzed.
The leaf is large, three to five lobes and the main nerves are red at the base of the stem.
The shoots are very strong.
The grape is small to medium-sized, dense berries, cylindrical; with yellow-green, dotted, thick-skinned and fleshy berries.

Maturity: early to medium

Yield

The variety brings medium and rather irregular yields.

Advantages and disadvantages

Symptoms of short growth in the Neuburger grape variety

The advantage is that the variety is rather undemanding as far as the soil is concerned; it also thrives on chalky soil. The shoots are vigorous and the vines can therefore tolerate dry, barren terrace locations well. The disadvantage is that the flowers trickle down on deep, very vigorous locations . The variety is sensitive to winter frost and very late frost, little to oidium and downy mildew , but very susceptible to botrytis due to the compact grapes . The vines can be so weakened by the disease of short shoots that they die. The causes of this disease have not yet been researched.

Wine

The variety usually produces strong, full, mild wines with a neutral taste. Young wines are spicy, flowery, later nutty in taste. The wine is very suitable for quality and predicate wine production. If the rather precocious variety is harvested late, it reaches high sugar contents in the berries. These grapes result in heavy, rather poorly acidic wines with a characteristic nutty aroma that is reminiscent of Burgundy wines.

distribution

country	Vineyards ha 2010
Austria	652
Czech Republic	303
Romania	66
Slovakia	9
World acreage 2010	1030

Austria

The vineyards in Austria were distributed among the individual growing areas in 2015 as follows:

Wine region	Vineyards ha 2015
Lower Austria	352
Burgenland	139
Vienna	14th
Styria	0.5
Austria as a whole	507

The Neuburger is only important in the thermal region south of Vienna , in northern Burgenland and in the Wachau. In 2015 the Neuburg covered 507 ha, a decrease in 10 years (1999–2009) of 40.4% - which continued until 2015.

In all countries the area is decreasing due to the short growth.

Synonyms

Lt. Quality grape variety regulation: Neuburger.

Synonyms 21: Brubler, Brugler, Burgrebe, Feher Neuburger, Feher Neuburgi, Neiburger, Neuburg, Neuburger Alb, Neuburger Bianco, Neuburger Blanc, Neuburger Weisser, Neuburger Weiss, Neuburgi, Neuburgovac, Neuburgske, Neuburger, Neue Rebe, Nojburger, Novogradski, Ujvári , Weisser Neuburger.

Neuburg Monument

Neuburg Monument 1935
Today's Neuburg Monument.

The Neuburg monument was erected in Arnsdorf in the Wachau in 1935 on the initiative of Josef Löschnig . It is reminiscent of the origin of this autochthonous grape variety. It was inaugurated on September 5, 1935, on the occasion of the 9th Austrian Wine-Growing Congress. Under the monument there was a cellar where approx. 300 bottles of Neuburger wine from the best Austrian wine regions are stored and are opened every ten years for tasting and new bottle storage. Because of the war events it did not come to that. In May 1941, the original monument was blown up by the National Socialists. Almost all of the wine was drunk. Only 35 bottles survived the war in the walled-up Kutscherakeller in Krems.

It was not until 1983 that a wine monument was erected again on the same site in Oberarnsdorf. The monument, known as the “wine column” because of its column-like design, was inaugurated on September 13, 1983. The "Wine Column" was replaced in 1999 by a new "Neuburg Monument", which was designed similar to the first "Neuburg Monument". The solemn blessing took place on May 20, 2000.

Web links

Neuburgerdenkmal ( Memento from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Neuburger ( Memento from April 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Neuburger in the database Vitis International Variety Catalog of the Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof (English)
Directory of the Austrian quality wine grape varieties and their clones

literature

Hans Ambrosi , Bernd HE Hill, Erika Maul, Ernst H. Rühl, Joachim Schmid, Fritz Schumann: color atlas grape varieties. 300 varieties and their wines. 3rd, completely revised edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8001-5957-4 .
Pierre Galet : Dictionnaire encyclopédique des cépages. Hachette, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-01-236331-8 .
Jancis Robinson : The Oxford Wine Lexicon. 3rd, completely revised edition. Hallwag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8338-0691-9 .
Directory of the Austrian quality wine grape varieties and their clones. Higher Federal College and Federal Office for Viticulture and Fruit Growing Klosterneuburg, Klosterneuburg 2008.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Karl Bauer, Ferdinand Regner , Barbara Schildberger: Weinbau (= AV-Fachbuch. ). 9th, updated edition. Cadmos, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7040-2284-4 .

^ Directory of the Austrian quality wine grape varieties and their clones. Higher Federal College and Federal Office for Viticulture and Fruit Growing Klosterneuburg, Klosterneuburg 2008.

↑ The Neuburg Monument. ( Memento from April 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

↑ Wilhelm Bauer: Where our wine grows. A description of the Austrian wine country. Lower Austria wine country. In: Hans Traxler (overall editor.): The Austrian Wine Book. Verlag Austria Press, Vienna 1963, pp. 20–40, here p. 21.

↑ Hans Frühwirth: The Kremser wine and the Kremser wine culture . Self-published, Krems 2005, ISBN 3-9501219-0-1 ( formally incorrect ) , p. 18 .