Arnsburger

Arnsburger is a white grape variety. It is a new breed of Müller-Thurgau and Chasselas, which took place in 1939 by Prof. Dr. Heinrich Birk at the Geisenheim Research Institute in the Rheingau. The original details of the breeder, if it were a cross between the two Riesling clones 88 and 64, were disproved in the meantime by a DNA analysis by Myles in 2011 werden.Erst in 1984, the plant variety right was granted. In the same year the Arnsburger was entered in the list of varieties.

It was named after the monastery Arnsburg in the Wetterau in Hesse. The name is a tribute to the power of the Cistercian Order in the viticulture in Germany. In addition to a modest acreage in Germany and smaller plantations on the island of Madeira and Italy are well known. In 2007, the area under vines was in New Zealand at even stagnating trend in five acres.

The grape variety is due to the low susceptibility to gray mold Botrytis cinerea and the riesling -like fruitiness as a basis for sparkling wine.

The yield performance of the variety is slightly higher than the Müller -Thurgau, but the must weight lies under comparable conditions by five to eight degrees Oechsle lower. Arnsburger was one of the crossing partner in the new breed Saphira.

See also the article viticulture in Germany, Viticulture in Italy, wine-growing and viticulture in New Zealand in Portugal and the list of grape varieties.

Synonyms: breeding line number Geisenheim 22-74

Ethnicity: Müller -Thurgau x Chasselas

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

In the ampelography the habit is described as follows:

• The shoot tip is open. It is yellowish- green, hairy schwachwollig and the tips are dyed crimson. The young leaves are hairy spinnwebig.
• The large leaves are clearly siebenlappig and widely sinuate ( see also the article sheet form). The petiole is rare V-shaped open but mostly closed slightly overlapping. The blade is serrated long and dull.
• The cone-shaped cluster is large and broad, shouldered, long-stalked and loose-. The rounded to short oval berries are medium in size and of a yellowish-green color. The berries are of neutral taste.

In autumn, the leaves discolored yellowish. Because an average maturity of the wood the variety is hardy only conditionally.

The strong growing vine ripens about 15 days after Chasselas and is therefore applicable in international comparison still early maturing. Arnsburger is a variety of the noble vine (Vitis vinifera ). It has hermaphrodite flowers and is thus self- fruiting. When the wine-growing economic disadvantage is avoided, no return delivered to have male plants grow.