Rebo

Rebo is a red wine variety that is mainly grown in Trentino ( Italy ). It is a cross between the Merlot and Teroldego varieties; Rebo Rigotti (1891–1971) did this in 1960 in the wine research institute “Istituto agrario di San Michele all'Adige”, today Fondazione Edmund Mach in San Michele all'Adige (Trentino). In 1990, 33 hectares were planted with this variety in northern Italy . Small stocks are also known in Switzerland . (0.3 hectare, status 2007, source: Office fédéral de l'agriculture OFAG)

In wine it is considered hardy plant. Rebo is a variety of the noble grapevine ( Vitis vinifera ).

• Synonyms: The Rebo grape variety is also known under the names IR 107-3, Incrocio Rigotti 107-3 or Rigotti 107-3. In all 3 cases there are different ways of writing the breeding line number.

• Parentage: Merlot x Teroldego

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The wine year 2008. (www.blw.admin.ch; PDF) ( Memento from March 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Editor Office fédéral de l'agriculture OFAG
2. ↑ B. Raifer: New grape varieties with increased resistance to fungal diseases in the trial. In: fruit growing viticulture. Volume 40, No. 7/8, 2003, p. 213. (PDF)

Web links

• Rebo 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 978-2-01-236331-1 .