Red Elbling
Red Elbling | |
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Synonyms | see section synonyms |
Art | Grape vine ( Vitis vinifera subsp. Vinifera ) |
Berry color | green |
use | |
VIVC no. | 3863 |
ancestry | |
List of grape varieties |
Roter Elbling is a white wine variety . It is a color mutation of the oldest wine variety in Europe, Elbling . Already cultivated by the Romans in the Moselle region , the White Elbling was also the most common German grape variety until the Middle Ages, but from the 17th century onwards it was more and more displaced by the Riesling and Silvaner varieties . As a mass bearer , it used to be popular with those who had to pay tithing in wine.
ancestry
The Red Elbling is a rottraubige mutation of the White Elblings and is classified as a white wine. The color of the wines is light red to salmon-colored.
Ampelographic varietal characteristics
- The shoot tip is open. It is woolly hairy with a slightly reddish tinge. The yellowish, slightly bronze-colored young leaves are densely hairy on the underside.
- The large leaves are rounded, either not curved or three-lobed and then only slightly curved. The stem bay is closed or even overlapped. The sheet is serrated. The leaf surface (also called blade) is blistered and rough.
- The cylindrical grape is medium-sized and has dense berries. The elongated berries are medium in size and light red in color.
The Rote Elbling sprouts medium early. As a result, it usually avoids any spring frosts and thrives in medium-good locations. It ripens about 20 days after the Gutedel .
distribution
The Red Elbling , with the exception of vineyards Baden and Wuerttemberg in all other wine-growing regions in Germany for the production of white wine permitted. Finds in old vineyards show that the Rote Elbling was often in a mixed sentence with the Elbling .
Synonyms
Other names for this grape variety are Blauer Elbe, Blauer Elbling, Braungrobes, Burger, Chasselas rose Faulcon, Elbai piros, Elbling rouge, Facon rouge, Felcherten, Mehlweiß roth, Piros Elbai, Raifrench, Red Elbling, Rotelben, Rotelber, Rotelbling, Rotelmener, Roter Alben, Roter Elbe, Roter Elblinger, Roter Franke, Roter Kristaller, Roter Silberling, Roter Spitzelbe, Rother Elbling, Rothsilberweiß, Rothungar and Rotweisse.
Web links
- Roter Elbling in the database Vitis International Variety Catalog of the Institute for Vine 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 .