Siegerrebe
Appellations Growing Siegerrebe Grapes
Appellations producing the most Siegerrebe wines:
Siegerrebe Grape Details
Vine variety: Siegerrebe
Mother: Madeleine d'Angevine
Father: Gewürztraminer
Year of breeding:
Country of origin: Germany
Year of entry into the German Federal Office's Varieties Register:
Breeder/License holder:
Number of clones:
Area planted in Germany in 1986: 2591 hectares
Wine Character - colour:
- bouquet: intense muscat aroma is obtrusive so best blended.
- palate:
Time of bud-burst: middle-late
Strength of growth: medium-strong
Growth of side-shoots:
Flowering time: late
Flowering strength: low
Leaf: - size: medium-small - shape:
- colour:
- surface undulation: - petiolar sinus:
Grape bunch: - size: - density: loose
Berries: - size: medium-large - shape: round
- skin colour: red-pink-brown
Time of veraison:
Time of harvest: very early
Its strong muscat aroma makes it very attractive to wasps, which eat a lot of the grapes.
Grape yield: low
Must-weight: high
Must-acidity: very low
Wood ripening:
Winter hardiness:
Wood colour: yellow-brown, short internodes.
Chlorosis resistance: medium
Susceptibility to - Oidium: - Peronospora:
- Botrytis: medium - Roter Brenner:
- Phomopsis: - Stem-atrophy:
Preferred soil:
Suitable rootstocks: SO4 and Binova, or 5C in fresh soils. 125AA and 5BB are not suitable.
Normal stem height: 0.6 to 0.7m
Normal row spacing: 1.8 to 2.0m
Vine spacing in the row: 1.0 to 1.3m
Winter Pruning: eyes/buds per sq. metre of land occupied by the plant.
Advantages: Very early ripening, high must-weight, strong pleasant bouquet. A special wine.
Disadvantages: Low flowering strength leads to coulure or millerandage in poor weather at flowering time. Low yield, low acidity. Eaten by wasps, bees and birds. Susceptible to chlorosis.
