Seibel vines
As Seibel vines refers to a group of varieties , which the French Rebzüchter Albert Seibel have been developed.
The aim of the breeding was to improve the resistance to frost and fungal diseases and to reach an early maturity. From the rapid spread of phylloxera, which threatened viticulture across Europe in the late 19th century , they should be an answer. Albert Seibel's work was limited to crossing phylloxera-resistant American vines with European grape varieties, the so-called French hybrid vines . He created around 16,000 new breeds, all of which were named and numbered after the breeder. The numbers start with 1 and end with 19975, but not all positions are occupied. Especially at the beginning of his breeding activities, Seibel used hybrid vines cultivated by the winemaker Hermann Jaeger , who had emigrated to the USA, as crossing partners. Approx. 500 grape varieties gained commercial importance. Its most commercially successful varieties were later given names.
In 1960 the Seibel vines took up more than 128,000 hectares of the vineyards in France. This corresponds to about 5/4 of the total area under vines in Germany. From the beginning of the 1940s, the American Philip Wagner brought many grape varieties from the Seibel group to America, where they were spread all over the east coast. After the EU banned hybrid vines, most of the land was abandoned or cleared. In the meantime, with the exception of small populations, mainly in the US state of New York , as well as in Ontario, Canada and the smallest amounts in Europe, they have disappeared.
After the varieties were almost forgotten in Europe for a long time, in times of ecological cultivation people are thinking about the fungus resistance of these grape varieties. Because of this resistance, fungicides can be avoided almost entirely in the vineyard .
Seibel vines played and are still playing a role in the new breeding of grape varieties. For example, they found their way into the most successful varieties of the Seyve-Villard vineyard and were used for many new varieties of the Landot group .
Seyve-Villard is a French vine growing company based in Saint-Vallier (Drôme) . The breeder Bertille Seyve (1864-1939) and his father-in-law and partner Victor Villard developed vines based on the hybrid Seibel. The results were named with the name of this company (Seyve, Seyval, Seyve-Villard or Villard) and a serial number. The most famous of these is the new variety Seyval Blanc . Seyve-Villard hybrid vines are used, among other things, as cross-breeding partners for new grape varieties with high resistance to fungi such as Calardis blanc .
List of some Seibel vines and their commercial names
- Seibel 1: Cross between Jaeger 70 x Cinsault
- Seibel 2: Cross between Jaeger 70 x ( Vitis rupestris x Vitis lincecumii )
- Seibel 14: Cross between Jaeger 70 x (Vitis rupestris x Vitis lincecumii)
- Seibel 29: Cross between Jaeger 70 x (Vitis rupestris x Vitis lincecumii)
- Seibel 85: Cross between Seibel 2 x Aramon Rupestris Ganzin 1
- Seibel 128: Salvador Noire
- Seibel 405: Cross between Seibel 14 x Aramon Rupestris Ganzin 1
- Seibel 452: Cross between Alicante Ganzin x Seibel 1
- Seibel 572: Cross between Sicilien x Clairette dorée Ganzin
- Seibel 752: Cross between Sicilien x Clairette dorée Ganzin
- Seibel 788: Cross between Sicilien x Clairette dorée Ganzin
- Peter 793
- Seibel 867: Cross between Seibel 2003 x Noah
- Seibel 880
- Seibel 1000: rosette
- Seibel 1020: Flot Rouge
- Seibel 2003
- Seibel 2007: Aramon du Gard
- Peter 2509
- Seibel 2510: Cinsaut Seibel
- 2524
- Seibel 2653: Flot d'Or
- Seibel 2859: Le Bienvenu
- 3004
- Peter 3011
- Seibel 4121: Le Plant du Métayer
- Seibel 4199
- Stefan 4461
- Seibel 4595
- Seibel 4614
- Seibel 4638 Le Bronzé
- Seibel 4643 Roi des Noirs
- Seibel 4646: Le Pourpre
- 4825
- Seibel 4877: 21 de Gléon
- Peter 4975
- Seibel 4986: Rayon d'Or
- Seibel 5001
- Seibel 5163
- Seibel 5279: Aurore
- Seibel 5455: Plantet
- Seibel 5487: Le Redessan
- Seibel 5575: Le Rubis
- Peter 5656
- Seibel 5898: Rougeon
- Peter 6339
- Peter 6468
- Seibel 6905: Le Subéreux
- Seibel 6906
- Seibel 7053: Chancellor
- Stefan 8216
- Seibel 8357: Colobel
- Seibel 8665
- Seibel 8745: Seinoir
- Seibel 9110: Verdelet
- Seibel 9549: DeChaunac
- Seibel 10173: Ambror
- Seibel 10868: Soleil Blanc
- Seibel 10878: Chelois
- Seibel 11803: Rubilands
- Seibel 13053: Cascade
- Seibel 14514: Dattier précoce de Seibel
- Seibel 14596: Bellandais
literature
- Pierre Galet : Cépages et vignobles de France. Volume 1: Les vignes Américaines. 2. édition, entièrement refondue. Paysan du Midi, Montpellier 1988, ISBN 2-902-771-03-7 .
- Pierre Galet: Dictionnaire encyclopédique des cépages. Hachette, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-01-236331-8 .
- Norbert Tischelmayer: Wine Glossary. 2777 terms related to wine. NP-Buchverlag, St. Pölten et al. 2001, ISBN 3-85326-177-9 .