The red grape variety is an interspecific new variety between Millardet et Grasset 101 O.P. x Goldriesling (1). Synonyms are Foch, Kuhlmann 188-2, Marschall Foch and Marshal Fosh. It contains genes from Vitis riparia, Vitis rupestris and Vitis vinifera. The hybrid was crossed at the beginning of the 20th century at the Oberlin Institute in Colmar-Alsace by grower Eugène Kuhlmann (1858-1932). The variety is named after the French Marshal Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), who became famous for the armistice conditions dictated to Germany in the Compiègne forest after the First World War. This played a revanchist role in the ban on the cultivation of this variety in Germany in the mid-1930s.
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