St. Laurent (grape)

St. Laurent (synonyms: Saint Laurent, Pinot Saint Laurent, Laurenzitraube, Svatovavřinecké, Svätovavrinecké ) is a highly aromatic red grape of Burgundy family and probably originates from Lower Austria.

Synonyms: Blue Saint- Laurent, Chvartser, Laurenzitraube, Laurentztraube, Lorentstraube, Svatovavřinecké, Lovrenac crni, Lovrjenac, Lovrjenac crni, Pinot Saint Laurent, Saint- Laurent, Saint Laurent noir, Saint Lorentz, Saint Laurent, Saint Lorentz grape, Sent Lovrenka, Svatovavřinecké, Svatovavřinecké, Svätovavrinecké, Szent lörine, Szentlörinc, Vavrinak

Breeding: a natural Burgundersämling.

Dissemination

The St. Laurent was introduced in the mid- 19th century by the German pharmacist and viticulture pioneer Johann Philipp Bronner from France to Germany. From there, the grape spread to neighboring countries, where it is still relatively common in Austria. There she was first planted and distributed by the Stift Klosterneuburg 1860. The first mention of St. Laurent in Austria dates back to 1860. Has experienced a doubling of the acreage to 800 acres in Austria in the last eight years and is particularly common in the vineyards thermal region and Lake Neusiedl. Also on the territory of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the variety has been considered one of the most popular red wines. Outside of Austria and the Czech Republic to build them lately, once again increased in the Palatinate and Rheinhessen. Since 2006, the variety is included in the statistics of Luxembourg; have been collected so far 2.8 ha (in 2008, source :). In New Zealand and Canada, the first attempts to run with this variety.

The grape was almost extinct a long time part of the mixed record in the wine, but since the 1950s in Germany. The rest of the vineyard said to have amounted just 27 hectares. With the renaissance of red wine there in the late 20th century, this old variety came into favor. In Germany 675 hectares ( = 0.7 % of German vineyards ) were planted with the grape St. Laurent, after only 185 hectares were collected in 2001 in 2007.

The vineyards in Germany distributed in 2007 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.

The vineyards in Austria were distributed in 2007 as follows among the various regions:

Source: vineyard collection 1999 conversion changes to 2007 ( ausgepflanzte surfaces )

Small stocks are also known in Switzerland. (2.73 acres, as of 2007, source: Office fédéral de l'agriculture OFAG )

To quality, the St. Laurent is located between the unassuming Portuguese and the high quality Pinot Noir or Pinot noir. Its berries are less thin-skinned and thus not as susceptible to injury as that of Pinot Noir. The wine is medium bodied and has an intense aroma of wild berries and black cherries on.

Name

The name possibly derives from the Essreife the first berries to the Laurenzitag (10 August ) ago. It is sometimes also argued that at the time - in the dog-days - the ( relatively precocious ) red grapes are fried by the sun as well as the legend, the eponymous martyr on the grill. That the municipality of Saint -Laurent has something to do with the naming of the Medoc, is considered excluded.

New breeds

The red variety Zweigelt is an Austrian new variety from 1922 by Friedrich Zweigelt ( 1888-1964 ), who later became director of the Federal Research Institute for Viticulture and Pomology Klosterneuburg (1938-1945 ), from St. Laurent and Gamay. The Zweigeltrebe is the most common red grape variety in Austria. André comes as Zweigelt a cross between Gamay and St. Laurent. The variety originated in the Czech Velkopavlovice / Großpawlowitz in 1961 and registered in the State List of Varieties of the Czech Republic since 1980. She was bred by Jaroslav Horák (1922 - 1994) at the Institute Slechtitelska stanice vinařská ve Velkých Pavlovicích.

Neronet is also a red variety. The intersection of the new variety was carried out by Prof. Ing Vilém Kraus ( German spelling: Wilhelm Kraus ) at the Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape of the Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry Brno, Lednice, Czech Republic. Neronet is a cross of ( St. Laurent Kékoportó x ) x ( Alicante Bouschet x Cabernet Sauvignon).

Gm 6494 (or Geisenheim 6494 ) was a Sämlingspopulation, which was crossed in 1964 by Vilém Kraus from the varieties Zarya Severa x St. Laurent. Prof. Kraus provided the seedlings Prof. Dr. Helmut Becker (1927-1990), then at the Geisenheim Research Institute operates at who recognized the importance of this material and it continued to work on breeding in progeny tests. From Sämlingspopulation 6494 Gm Gm was the seedling 6494-5 read due to its special performance and later propagated under the varietal name Rondo as a separate variety and brought into practice. About the intersection of Gm 6494 St. Laurent entered the new varieties Bronner, Baron, Cabernet Carbon, Prior and Souvignier gris