Schönburger

Schönburger is a white grape variety with pink berries. The parents of this cross are Pinot Noir (Pinot noir ) and the little-known in Germany Vine Pirovano 1, which in turn is a cross between red Chasselas ( Chasselas rose) and Muscat de Hambourg by the Italian breeder Alberto Pirovano from 1892 constituted. Heinrich Birk introduced this new variety in 1939 at the Research Institute Geisenheim in the Rheingau through. The vine variety protection attained in 1979, and was entered a year later in the list of varieties. The originally planned name Rosa Muskat was rejected by the Federal Office of Plant Varieties. The details of the breeder to the crossing parents could be confirmed in the meantime by DNA analysis.

Below the Schoenburg in Oberwesel find the wine in the vineyard of the winery Persch. When naming Heinrich Birk would rather make exemplary attention to the fact that the wine in the triangle between the middle Rhine, Nahe, Pfalz and Rheinhessen may be at home. In fact, today about 21 ha in these areas are planted with this grape.

The vineyards in Germany are distributed as follows among the various regions:

Source: Statistics vineyard of 13 March 2008, Federal Statistical Office, Wiesbaden, 2008 Descriptive list of varieties of the Federal Plant Variety Office, 2008, page 198ff.

Successful wine, however, is in the south of England ( Somerset and Kent); Here he takes a double acreage. Also in Brazil, Italy, Canada and the Czech Republic comes before the vine. The medium- fast growing vine requires sheltered, sunny locations. It is still winter.

The white wines are from floral- spicy, slightly reminiscent of Traminer. Also associations with " rose-scented " and " Muskat" have been described.

See also the article viticulture in Germany, Viticulture in Italy, wine-growing in Brazil, viticulture in the Czech Republic, viticulture and winemaking in Canada in the United Kingdom and the list of grape varieties.

Synonym: Breeding Geisenheim number 15-114 or 15-114 Gm

Ethnicity: Pinot Noir x Pirovano 1

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

In the ampelography the habit is described as follows:

• The shoot tip is open. It is starkwollig hairy to white wool - felted. The young leaves are hairy only schwachwollig.
• The medium-sized, dark green leaves are five-lobed and sinuate medium low. The petiole is a V - shape open to closed, but rarely overlapping. The sheet is cut sharply. The teeth are set moderately dilated in comparison to other varieties. The leaf surface (also called lamina ) is easily blistered coarse.
• The cone-shaped cluster is small to medium in size, usually winged and loose-. The slightly oval berries are medium sized and pink. The berries have a tough grape skin and have a slight taste of nutmeg.

The grape ripens almost simultaneously with the Chasselas and is therefore applicable in international comparison as early ripening. It is a variety of the noble vine (Vitis vinifera ). It has hermaphrodite flowers and is thus self- fruiting. When the wine-growing economic drawback is avoided, no return delivered to male plants need to grow.

The variety is hardly susceptible to powdery mildew, downy mildew and gray mold.