The white grape variety is an interspecific new breeding between Muscat d'Hamburg x Villard Blanc (by the way, in the breeding list the parentage was given as Panse x SV 12-375). Synonyms are Pierelle, Seyve Villard 20-366 and SV 20-366. It contains genes from Vitis berlandieri, Vitis rupestris and Vitis vinifera. The hybrid was crossed at the French vine breeding farm Seyve-Villard. The variety was a crossing partner in the new varieties Alb de Onițcani, Lyana, Muscat de Bugeac, Muscat Odessky, Nimrang Magaracha, Onitskanskii Belyi, Pamyati Negrulya, Smuglyanka Moldavskaya and Yalovenskii Ustoichivyi. It is suitable as a winepress and table grape. No stocks were reported in 2016 (Kym Anderson).
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