Roi des Noirs

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Roi des Noirs (literally King of the Blacks ) is a red wine variety bred by the French breeder Albert Seibel at the beginning of the 20th century . It is a cross between Seibel 29 and the Danugue grape variety and belongs to the large Seibel family . The white grape variety Seibel 4644 was created from the same cross. Between 1888 and the beginning of the 1930s, Seibel bred countless interspecific grape varieties in the fight against phylloxera . The red wines of the variety are deep red in color, but have an unpleasant taste due to the influence of American wild vines (→ Fox tone which is also often given as strawberry shade). At the end of the 1950s, the area under vines was over 12,000 hectares .

Due to its early ripeness, the grape variety is found in growing areas with a cool climate. In France it was common in the cool regions of the Limousin , Berry , Poitou , the Loire and Savoie .

With the Bienvenu grape variety in particular , Pierre Landot and André Perbos, but also Seibel himself, created a number of new varieties such as the Rubilande variety . The primary aim was to maintain the early ripeness while improving the taste properties.

Synonym: Feketek Kiralyale, Sequanais, Le Sequania, Spannonhalmi Kék and the breeding line number Seibel 4643.

Parentage : Seibel 29 x Danugue . Seibel 29 is itself a cross between the hybrid vine Jaeger 70, bred by Hermann Jaeger , and an unknown Vitis vinifera variety.

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

In ampelography , the habitus is described as follows:

  • The shoot tip is open. It is hairy with white wool, the tips are greenish with a slight carmine-red tinge. The yellow-green young leaves are slightly woolly hairy.
  • The small to medium-sized leaves are five-lobed and clearly indented. The stalk bay is almost closed, with the ends overlapping. The blade is bluntly serrated. The teeth are set medium-wide in comparison to the grape varieties.
  • The cylindrical grape is medium-sized and has dense berries. The round berries are large and purple-black in color. The aroma of the berry is sour and slightly unpleasant.

The medium-late growing grape variety ripens about 6 days after the Gutedel and is therefore very early within the red grape varieties, so that it can ripen in cool locations. The variety is quite resistant to downy mildew but sensitive to powdery mildew and gray mold rot .

See also: Viticulture in France and List of Grape Varieties

literature

  • Pierre Galet : Cépages et vignobles de France, Tome 1 - les vignes américaines . 2nd Edition. 1988, ISBN 2-902771-03-7 .
  • Pierre Galet: Dictionnaire encyclopédique des cépages . 1st edition. Hachette Livre, 2000, ISBN 2-01-236331-8 .

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