The white grape variety (breeding no. GF. 93-22-6) is a new cross between Calardis Musque x Seyve Villard 39-639. The parent variety was created in 1964 at Geilweilerhof, the father variety at the end of the 19th/beginning of the 20th century at the Seyve-Villard breeding farm. The cross was made in 1993 at the Geilweilerhof Vine Breeding Institute (Palatinate) by Rudolf Eibach and Reinhard Töpfer. The breeding objective was to create a variety that could cope with the effects of climate change with higher temperatures and higher alcohol levels in the wine. Variety protection was granted in 2015.
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