Ruby Cabernet
Ruby Cabernet is a red wine variety . It is a new breed from Carignan noir and Cabernet Sauvignon . The cross was made by Harold Olmo at the University of California at Davis in 1936 and has been booming since the 1990s. In California (→ Viticulture in California ) it occupied around 2,580 hectares of vineyards in 2007 , there are other stocks in Argentina , Australia (approx. 1,142 hectares, as of 2008), Chile and South Africa (2,469 hectares, as of 2007). The worldwide population is estimated at around 6,500 hectares.
The aim of the breeding was to combine the heat tolerance of Carignan with the finesse of Cabernet Sauvignon and thus to develop a variety suitable for the hot regions of California for the production of bordeaux-like wines . The high-yielding vine has proven in practice that it is also suitable for cooler areas. In terms of quality, however, the high expectations placed on the red wines of the variety were disappointed. It is mostly used as a blend , but is increasingly being expanded as a single variety.
Synonyms: Rubi kaberne, Roubi cabernet
Origin: Carignan x Cabernet Sauvignon
literature
- Pierre Galet : Dictionnaire encyclopédique des cépages Hachette Livre, 1st edition 2000 ISBN 2-01-236331-8
Individual evidence
- ↑ California Grape acreage 2007 Crop (PDF; 640 kB) , by the California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, published April 2008
- ↑ Areas of vines and grape production by variety - 2007-08. In: Annual Report 2008–2009. Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation, 2009, p. 89 , accessed November 25, 2014 .
- ^ South African Wine Industry Statistics (PDF) ( Memento from December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), published in June 2008
Web links
- Ruby Cabernet in the database Vitis International Variety Catalog of the Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof (English)