Seibel grapes
As Seibel vines are a group of grape varieties that have been developed by the French Rebzüchter Albert Seibel.
The aim of the cultivars was to improve the resistance to frost and fungal diseases and to achieve early maturity. From the rapid spread of phylloxera in Europe threatened the wine production in the late 19th century, they should be an answer. Work Albert Seibel thereby limited to intersections of phylloxera- resistant American vines with European grape varieties, the so-called French hybrid vines. He created about 16,000 new varieties, which were all named and numbered according to the breeder. The numbers start with 1 and end with 19975, but all positions are not filled. Approx. 500 varieties gained commercial importance. His most commercially successful varieties were later given name.
In 1960, the Seibel vines took more than 128,000 hectares of vineyards of France. This corresponds to about 5/ 4 of the total vineyard area in Germany. The American Philip Wagner has from the beginning of the 1940s, many varieties of Seibel Group to America, where they found all along the east coast distribution. After the ban of hybrid vines by the EU, the areas were largely abandoned or cleared. Meanwhile, they are equipped with exceptions of small stocks, mainly, disappeared in the U.S. New York State, as well as in Ontario, Canada and smallest volumes in Europe.
After the varieties for a long time in Europe were almost forgotten is rethinking how in times of organic farming on fungal resistance of these varieties. Because of this resistance can be almost completely waive the vineyard to fungicides.
Seibel vines played today and play again a role in the new variety of grape varieties. They found, for example, input into the successful breeding of Rebzuchtbetriebs Seyve Villard and the Landot vines were for many new varieties of the group used.
List of some Seibel vines and their commercial names
- Seibel 85: intersection between Seibel 2 x Aramon Rupestris Ganzin 1
- Seibel 128: Salvador Noire
- Seibel 405: intersection between Seibel 14 x Aramon Rupestris Ganzin 1
- Seibel 452: intersection between Alicante Ganzin x Seibel 1
- Seibel 572: intersection between Sicily x Clairette Dorée Ganzin
- Seibel 752: intersection between Sicily x Clairette Dorée Ganzin
- Seibel 788: intersection between Sicily x Clairette Dorée Ganzin
- Seibel 793
- Seibel 867: intersection between Seibel 2003 x Noah
- Seibel 880
- Seibel 1000: Rosette
- Seibel 1020: Flot Rouge
- Seibel 2003
- Seibel 2007: Aramon du Gard
- Seibel 2509
- Seibel 2510: Cinsault Seibel
- Seibel 2524
- Seibel 2653: Flot d'Or
- Seibel 2859: Le Bienvenu
- Seibel 3004
- Seibel 3011
- Seibel 4121: Le Plant you Métayer
- Seibel 4199
- Seibel 4461
- Seibel 4595
- Seibel 4614
- Seibel 4638 Le Bronze
- Seibel 4643 Roi des Noirs
- Seibel 4646: Le Pourpre
- Seibel 4825
- Seibel 4877: 21 de Gléon
- Seibel 4975
- Seibel 4986: Rayon d'Or
- Seibel 5001
- Seibel 5163
- Seibel 5279: Aurore
- Seibel 5455: Plantet
- Seibel 5487: Le Redessan
- Seibel 5575: Le Rubis
- Seibel 5656
- Seibel 5898: Rougeon
- Seibel 6339
- Seibel 6468
- Seibel 6905: Le Subéreux
- Seibel 6906
- Seibel 7053: Chancellor
- Seibel 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: Rubilande
- Seibel 13053: Cascade
- Seibel 14514: Dattier précoce de Seibel
- Seibel 14596: Bellandais