Seibel vines

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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

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 .