Seibel grapes are a group of wine

Wine

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 grape

Grape

A grape is a non-climacteric fruit, specifically a berry, that grows on the perennial and deciduous woody vines of the genus Vitis. Grapes can be eaten raw or they can be used for making jam, juice, jelly, vinegar, wine, grape seed extracts, raisins, molasses and grape seed oil. Grapes are also...

 varieties which originated with the work of Albert Seibel

Albert Seibel

Albert Seibel was a French physician and viticulturist who made hybrid crosses of European wine grapes with native North American grapes...

. They were planted widely in France during the 1950s but have seen decline in recent years due to French wine law banning the cultivation of hybrid grapes for appellation wine. The grapes are still commonly used as blending grapes in table wine

Table wine

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 and mass commercial wines. New Zealand

New Zealand

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, England

England

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, and Canada

Canada

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 also have plantings of Seibel grapes.

List of some Seibel grapes and their common names

• Seibel 30
• akash 99
• Seibel 793
• Seibel 867
• Seibel 880
• Seibel 1000 Rosette
  Rosette (grape)
  Rosette or Seibel 1000 is a wine hybrid grape red-berries variety which originated with the work of Albert Seibel by a crossing of Jaeger 70 with Vitis vinifera. Rosette is also the common ancestor of St. Pepin and La Crosse grapes. Rosette is used to produce rosé wine....
  
  
• Seibel 1020 Flot Rouge
• Seibel 2007 Aramon du Gard
• Seibel 2510 Cinsaut Seibel
• Seibel 2524
• Seibel 2653 Flot d'Or
• Seibel 2859 Le Bienvenu
• Seibel 4461
• Seibel 4643 Roi des Noirs
• Seibel 4646 Le Pourpre
• Seibel 4986 Rayon d'Or
• Seibel 5163
• Seibel 5279 Aurore
• Seibel 5455 Plantet
  Plantet
  Plantet is a red wine grape variety that was one of the hybrid grape created by French physician and grape breeder Albert Seibel. While the exact parentage of the grape is unknown, the most popular theories has it as a cross of two Seibel grapes, Seibel 867 x Seibel 2524 with another theory...
  
  
• Seibel 5487 Le Redessan
• Seibel 5575 Le Rubis
• Seibel 5656
• Seibel 5898 Rougeon
• Seibel 6905 Les Subéreux
• Seibel 7053 Chancellor
  Chancellor (grape)
  Chancellor is a hybrid wine grape variety produced by Albert Seibel circa 1860. It is also known as Seibel 7053 and is a cross of Seibel 5163 and Seibel 880.The grape produces a fruity red wine. It is susceptible to both downy and powdery mildew.-Synonyms:...
  
  
• Seibel 8357 Colobel
• Seibel 8665
• Seibel 8745 Seinoir
• Seibel 9110 Verdelet
• Seibel 9549 De Chaunac
  De Chaunac
  De Chaunac is a French-American hybrid wine grape variety used to make red wines. It was developed by Albert Seibel circa 1860. It is also known as Seibel 9549 and is a cross of Seibel 5163 and possibly Seibel 793...
  
  
• Seibel 10173 Ambror
• Seibel 11803 Rubilande
• Seibel 10878 Chelois
  Chelois
  Chelois is a variety of hybrid grape used in the production of red wines. The fruit are small blue-black berries, which appear in compact, medium-sized clusters. "Chelois" is among the "less hardy" hybrids of red-wine grapes....
  
  
• Seibel 13053 Cascade
• Seibel 14514 Dattier précoce de Seibel
• Seibel 14596 Bellandais

See also

• French Wine
  French wine
  French wine is produced in several regions throughout France, in quantities between 50 and 60 million hectolitres per year, or 7–8 billion bottles. France has the world's second-largest total vineyard area, behind Spain, and is in the position of being the world's largest wine producer...
  
  
• Vineyard
  Vineyard
  A vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice...
  
  
• Hybrid grapes
  Hybrid grapes
  Hybrid grapes are grape varieties that are the product of a crossing of two or more Vitis species. This is in contrast to crossings between grape varieties of the same species, typically Vitis vinifera, the European grapevine. Hybrid grapes are also referred to as inter-specific crossings...