Seibel grapes
Seibel grapes are a group of wine grape varieties which originated with the work of French viticulturist Albert Seibel crossing European wine 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 prohibits 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.
Almost all of Albert Seibel's hybrid grapes were descended from only four parent grapes: two European grapes, Aramon and Alicante Bouschet; one wild American grape, Jaeger 70 ; and one rootstock, AxR1, which was created by crossing Aramon with a wild American V. rupestris. Although Seibel bred tens of thousands of grapes, he did so almost entirely by 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, such as Seyve-Villard 5276.
List of some Seibel grapes and their common names
- Seibel 1
- Seibel 29
- Seibel 30
- Seibel 99
- Seibel 405
- Seibel 452
- Seibel 788
- Seibel 793
- Seibel 867
- 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
- Seibel 2859 Le Bienvenu
- Seibel 3015
- Seibel 4199
- Seibel 4461
- Seibel 4595
- Seibel 4643 Roi des Noirs
- Seibel 4646 Le Pourpre
- Seibel 4986 Rayon d'Or
- Seibel 5001 Florental
- Seibel 5163
- Seibel 5279 Aurore
- Seibel 5351
- Seibel 5409 Gloire de Seibel
- Seibel 5410
- Seibel 5455 Plantet
- Seibel 5474
- Seibel 5487 Le Redessan
- Seibel 5575 Le Rubis
- Seibel 5656
- Seibel 5898 Rougeon
- Seibel 6150
- Seibel 6268
- Seibel 6468
- Seibel 6905 Le Subéreux
- Seibel 7042
- Seibel 7053 Chancellor
- Seibel 8216
- 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
- Seibel 14514 Dattier précoce de Seibel
- Seibel 14596 Bellandais