Rosette (grape variety)

Rosette is a red wine from the large group of Seibel vines .

It is a new breed between the hybrid vine Jaeger 70 bred by Hermann Jaeger and an unknown Vitis vinifera variety. The crossing was carried out by the French breeder Eugène Contassot and was further processed in breeding by Albert Seibel . Due to the influence of the parents, the hybrid vine Rosette has the genes of the wild vines Vitis vinifera, Vitis rupestris and Vitis lincecumii .

Before 1958, it was grown on almost 3,680 hectares in France. Today it can be found in Canada (approx. 15 ha) and on the cold North American east coast, for example in the US state of New York (→ Viticulture in New York , Finger Lake AVA ).

The early ripening and high-yielding variety has good resistance to the vine diseases powdery mildew and downy mildew . It produces rosé wines and light red wines , which lack structure due to the lack of acidity , but which are nevertheless pleasant to drink.

See the articles Viticulture in Canada , Viticulture in France, and Viticulture in the United States, as well as the list of grape varieties .

Parentage: Jaeger 70 x Vitis vinifera

Synonyms: Seibel 1000 (the breed number).

literature

• Pierre Galet : Dictionnaire encyclopédique des cépages . 1st edition. Hachette Livre, 2000, ISBN 2-01-236331-8 .
• Pierre Galet: Cépages et vignobles de France, Tome 1 - les vignes américaines . 2nd Edition. 1988, ISBN 2-902771-03-7 .
• Jancis Robinson : The Oxford Wine Lexicon . Hallwag, Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-8338-0691-9 .