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Biography

Seibel was born in Aubenas in the Ardeche in 1844.

In 1895, he founded a school to teach grafting methods.

He died in 1936.

Breeding programme

See also: Seibel grapes

In the 1860s the Phylloxera plague cut European wine production by more than two-thirds.^[1] As the pest originated in the New World, crossing American stock with European Vitis vinifera varieties was one of the promising attempts to contain the disaster. The vines produced by this hybridization did not necessarily produce better wines, but did produce vine stock that could better survive Phylloxera attacks. Seibel grapes are a group of wine grape varieties which originated with the work of Albert Seibel. ... Grape Phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, family Phylloxeridae, superfamily Aphidoidea) is a serious pest of commercial grapevines worldwide, originally native to eastern North America. ... Frontispiece of Peter Martyr dAnghieras De orbe novo (On the New World). Carte dAmérique, Guillaume Delisle, 1722. ... Binomial name Vitis vinifera L. For thousands of years, the fruit and plant of Vitis vinifera, the European grapevine, have been harvested for both medicinal and nutritional value; its history is intimately entwined with the history of wine. ...

Seibel and his company produced over 16,000 new hybrids, with nearly 500 varieties that were then grown commercially. He often used as a female parent the hybrid Jaeger 70, a cross between Vitis lincecumii and Vitis rupestris produced by Hermann Jaeger. Some of the most famous Seibel grapes are Aurore (Seibel 5279), Chancellor (Seibel 7053), Chelois (Seibel 10878), De Chaunac (Seibel 9549) and Vidal Blanc (Vidal 256). Jaeger 70 is a hybrid of two American species of grape, Vitis lincecumii and Vitis rupestris. ... Vitis Lincecumii is a kind of grape. ... Binomial name Vitis rupestris {{{author}}} Vitis rupestris is a kind of grape native to the Southern and Western United States. ... Hermann Jaeger (b. ... Seibel grapes are a group of wine grape varieties which originated with the work of Albert Seibel. ... Vidal Blanc is a cross of Ugni Blanc and Seibel 4986. ...

His grapes were widely planted in France and Brazil^[2]. However, other than in countries such as Canada where traditional wine grapes grow poorly, Seibel grapes have fallen from favour in recent years owing to the quality of the wine they make.

References

This article is based in part on material from the German Wikipedia.

• Seibel, Albert Definition in the Wine Dictionary at Epicurious.com accessed 4 October 2007;
• Paul, Harry W. (2002) Science, Vine and Wine in Modern France Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 103-104, ISBN 0521525217

See also

• Seibel grapes
• Oenology

• Vineyard
• Phylloxera
• List of wine personalities