Noble
The Nobling is a white wine that is almost exclusively in the Markgräflerland in Baden is grown. It is a new breed by Johannes Zimmermann, which was created by crossing the grape varieties Gutedel and Silvaner in 1940 at the state viticulture institute in Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1971 it was entered in the list of varieties . The information provided by the breeder about the parents of the cross has been confirmed by DNA analysis in the meantime.
Despite its inherently high quality, the variety has not become particularly well known to this day. It was therefore initially used as a high-quality basis for sparkling wine , as it can simultaneously reach high must weights with high acidity (→ acidity (wine) ) . However, due to the sharp decline in the area under cultivation, the use for sparkling wine is now almost impossible. Nobling has a delicate, mirabell to peach-like aroma .
Nobling needs the warm, humid climate of the Baden region and has a relatively low resistance to winter frost. Characteristic for the vine is its very irregular budding in spring and the tendency to develop strong tendrils. In contrast to Burgundy varieties, for example, the tendrils lignify in the late year. As a result, the manual work required for winter cutting in wire systems is around three times longer than with Burgundy varieties and around twice as long as with the Gutedel variety.
In addition to the relatively high manual workload, the vine also needs good to very good locations to achieve high must weights, unlike the Müller-Thurgau variety, which has significantly fewer demands on the location. This means that the Nobling variety is in competition with the Burgundy varieties, with which significantly higher revenues can be achieved with less manual labor in the prime locations that are suitable for Nobling.
The grape variety 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.
See also the article Viticulture in Germany and the list of grape varieties .
Synonyms: none known
Former breeding line number: Fr.128-40
distribution
The fact of having to rely on good locations, coupled with the low level of awareness on the market, resulted in a massive decline in cultivation area after 1990: in 2007 only 65 hectares were planted with Nobling compared to approx. 95 hectares in 2000 after 128 hectares were surveyed in 1994. In 2015, the variety was practically only grown in Baden.
The area under vines was distributed within Germany in 2007 and 2015 as follows:
| Wine region | Vineyard area (ha) 2007 |
Vineyard area (ha) 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| Ahr | - | - |
| to bathe | 63 | 54 |
| Francs | - | - |
| Hessian mountain road | - | - |
| Middle Rhine | below 0.5 | - |
| Moselle | - | - |
| Near | below 0.5 | - |
| Palatinate | 1 | - |
| Rheingau | - | - |
| Rheinhessen | below 0.5 | - |
| Saale-Unstrut | - | - |
| Saxony | - | - |
| Stargarder Land | - | - |
| Württemberg | below 0.5 | - |
| Total Germany 2007 | 65 | 54 |
Source: Vineyard statistics from March 13, 2008, Federal Statistical Office , Wiesbaden 2008 in Descriptive Variety List of the Federal Variety Office 2008, page 198ff. Basic survey of the vineyards - Fachserie 3 Reihe 3.1.5 - 2015 Federal Statistical Office , Wiesbaden
Small stocks are also known in Switzerland . (0.9 hectare, as of 2007, source: Office fédéral de l'agriculture OFAG)
Web links
- Nobling in the database Vitis International Variety Catalog of the Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof (English)
literature
- Pierre Galet : Dictionnaire encyclopédique des cépages. Hachette, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-01-236331-8 .
- Walter Hillebrand, Heinz Lott, Franz Pfaff: Paperback of the grape varieties. 13th, revised edition. Fachverlag Fraund, Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-921156-53-X .
- Jancis Robinson : The Oxford Wine Lexicon. 3rd, completely revised edition. Hallwag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8338-0691-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erika Maul, Fritz Schumann, Bernd HE Hill, Frauke Dörner, Heike Bennek, Valérie Laucou, Jean-Michel Boursiquot, Thierry Lacombe, Eva Zyprian, Rudolf Eibach, Reinhard Töpfer: Focus on the crossing parents of German new varieties of vines - what does the genetic fingerprint say. In: German Viticulture Yearbook. Vol. 64, 2013, ISSN 0343-3714 , pp. 128-142.
- ↑ Descriptive list of varieties of the Federal Plant Variety Office 2008 (PDF; 507 kB);
- ↑ https://www.destatis.de/DE/Publikationen/Themati/LandForstwirtschaft/WeinanbauErzeugung/GrunderammlungRebflaechen2030315159004.pdf?__blob=publicationFile Basic survey of the vineyards - Fachserie 3 Reihe 3.1.5 - 2015
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: The Wine Year 2008 (PDF) ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Editor Office fédéral de l'agriculture OFAG
