Seibel grapes

Seibel grapes are a group of wine grape varieties which originated with the work of Albert Seibel crossing European grape with American grape species to increase disease resistance. They were planted widely in France during the 1950s but have seen decline in recent years because French wine law proscribes hybrid grapes in appellation wine. The grapes are still commonly used as blending grapes in table wine and mass commercial wines. New Zealand, England, and Canada also have plantings of Seibel grapes.^[1]

Of great importance is the fact that almost all of Albert Seibel’s hybrid grapes were descended from only four parent grapes: two European (Vitis Vinifera) grapes: Aramon and Alicante Bouchet … one wild American grape: Jaeger 70 (V. Rupestris x V.Lincicumii)… and one rootstock, AxR1, which was created by crossing Aramon with a wild American Vitis Rupestris.

Although Seibel bred tens of thousands of grapes, he did so almost entirely by continually crossing and re-crossing his original varieties, all of which were descended from the original four vines, so the basic gene pool of his collection remained largely unchanged.

Almost all later grapevine hybridizers, such as Bertille Seyve and his father-in-law Victor Villard, would simply breed one or two of Albert Seibel’s grapes together and name their creations after themselves, e.g., Seyve-Villard 5276 (“Seyval Blanc”). ^[2]

List of some Seibel grapes and their common names

Seibel 1 (a Munson and unknown Vitis vinifera crossing)
Seibel 29 (a Munson and unknown Vitis vinifera crossing)
Seibel 30
Seibel 99
Seibel 405
Seibel 452 (a crossing of Alicante Ganzin and Seibel 1)
Seibel 788 (a Sicilien and Clairette Dorée Ganzin) crossing)
Seibel 793
Seibel 867 (a crossing of Noah and Vivarais)
Seibel 880
Seibel 1000 Rosette
Seibel 1020 Flot rouge
Seibel 2003 Vivarais
Seibel 2007 Aramon du Gard
Seibel 2510 Cinsaut Seibel
Seibel 2524
Seibel 2653 Flot d'Or
Seibel 2679 (a crossing of Triumph and Alicante Terras 20)
Seibel 2859 Le Bienvenu
Seibel 4199
Seibel 4461
Seibel 4595
Seibel 4643 Roi des Noirs
Seibel 4646 Le Pourpre
Seibel 4986 Rayon d'Or (a crossing of Aramon du Gard and Seibel 405)
Seibel 5001 Florental (a crossing of Seibel 2510 and Seibel 867)
Seibel 5163
Seibel 5279 Aurore (a crossing of Seibel 788 & Seibel 29)
Seibel 5351 (a crossing of Seibel 880 and Seibel 2679)
Seibel 5409 Gloire de Seibel (a crossing of Seibel 867 and Seibel 452)
Seibel 5410
Seibel 5455 Plantet
Seibel 5474 (a crossing of Seibel 405 and Seibel 867)
Seibel 5487 Le Redessan
Seibel 5575 Le Rubis
Seibel 5656 (a crossing of Seibel 4595 and Seibel 4199)
Seibel 5898 Rougeon
Seibel 6150 (a crossing of Seibel 405 and Flot rouge)
Seibel 6268 (a crossing of Seibel 4614 and Seibel 3011)
Seibel 6468 (a crossing of Seibel 4614 and Seibel 3011)
Seibel 6905 Le Subéreux
Seibel 7042 (a crossing of Seibel 5351 and Seibel 6268)
Seibel 7053 Chancellor
Seibel 8216 (a crossing of Seibel 5410 & 5001)
Seibel 8357 Colobel
Seibel 8665
Seibel 8724
Seibel 8745 Seinoir
Seibel 9110 Verdelet
Seibel 9549 De Chaunac
Seibel 10173 Ambror
Seibel 11803 Rubilande
Seibel 10878 Chelois
Seibel 13053 Cascade (a crossing of Seibel 7042 and Gloire de Seibel)
Seibel 14514 Dattier précoce de Seibel
Seibel 14596 Bellandais

References

^ J. Robinson Vines, Grapes & Wines pg 207 Mitchell Beazley 1986 ISBN 1-85732-999-6
^ name="Galet pg 221"> P. Galet A Practical Ampelography pg 221 Cornell University Press 1979 ISBN 0-8014-1240-4

v t e Hybrid grape varieties
Grape (Vitis) species	V. acerifolia V. adenoclada V. aestivalis V. amurensis V. × andersonii V. arizonica V. balansana V. barbata V. bashanica V. bellula V. berlandieri V. betulifolia V. biformis V. blancoi V. bloodworthiana V. bourgaeana V. × bourquina V. bryoniifolia V. californica V. × champinii V. chunganensis V. chungii V. cinerea V. coignetiae V. davidii V. × doaniana V. erythrophylla V. fengqinensis V. ficifolia V. flexuosa V. girdiana V. hancockii V. heyneana V. hui V. jacquemontii V. jaegeriana V. jinggangensis V. Kelungensis V. labrusca V. × labruscana V. lanceolatifoliosa V. lincecumii V. longquanensis V. luochengensis V. menghaiensis V. mengziensis V. monticola V. mustangensis V. nesbittiana V. × novae-angliae V. palmata V. peninsularis V. piasezkii V. pilosonerva V. popenoei V. pseudoreticulata V. retordii V. riparia V. romanetii V. rotundifolia V. rupestris V. ruyuanensis V. shenxiensis V. shuttleworthii V. silvestrii V. sinocinerea V. × slavinii V. tiliifolia V. treleasei V. tsoii V. vinifera V. vulpina V. wenchouensis V. wilsonae V. wuhanensis V. xunyangensis V. Yeshanensis V. yunnanensis V. zhejiang-adstricta
Notable hybrids	Agawam Alexander Aurore Baco blanc Baco noir Beta Black Spanish Blanc du Bois Breidecker Cabernet blanc Cabernet Cortis Cascade Cassady Catawba Cayuga White Chambourcin Chancellor Chardonel Chelois Clinton Concord Corot noir Couderc noir De Chaunac Edelweiss Flora Flot rouge Frontenac Goethe Herbert Hibernal Himrod seedless Ives noir Jaeger 70 Kay Gray Kyoho L'Acadie blanc La Crosse Lakemont seedless Landal noir Landot noir Léon Millot Malverina Marechal Foch Marechal Joffre Marquette Massasoit Melody Merzling Muscat bleu Niagara Noiret Norton Olmo grapes Onaka Orion Phoenix Plantet Ravat blanc Requa Rogers' Hybrids Rondo Royalty Seibel grapes Severny Seyval blanc Seyval noir Solaris St. Pepin Thomcord Traminette Triomphe d'Alsace Valvin muscat Vidal blanc Vignoles Villard grapes Zarya severa

List of some Seibel grapes and their common names

References

See also