Mater Veltlinis

Since 2023, official main name of the grape variety previously called St. Georgen (now synonym), which had been identified by DNA analyses as the parent variety of Grüner Veltliner; see there.

The white grape variety was discovered in 2000 in St. Georgen, a district of Eisenstadt in Burgenland (Austria) and named after the place where it was found. In 2023, it was given the main name Mater Veltlinis (with now the synonym St. Georgen) as its official designation. Stories have long been told here about a supposedly ancient vine on a former vineyard that was cultivated centuries ago. Michael Leberl from the "Dorfblick" association and the winegrower Hans Moser followed up the traces. At the end of May 2000, Leberl found a rosehip bush on the long overgrown Ried Viehtrift, which was used as a vineyard in the Middle Ages and later served as a hat pasture, "and something green glowed above the bush". It is a vine that is already several centuries old, of which only this one specimen is known so far. Because the vine had been hidden in the undergrowth for a very long time due to lack of light, it was very weakened and had only small leaves the size of thumbnails.

St. Georgen - Weintraube und Blätter

Mother variety of Grüner Veltliner

In the following years, detailed examinations of the vine...

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Mater Veltlinis

St. Georgen

Mother variety of Grüner Veltliner

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