Life Style / Wine Grapes / Rosette: Derived from a Unknown V.rupestris x Jaeger 70 cross. Very hardy French/American hybrid, with synonym name Seibel 1000. Cultivar with medium-sized berries that ripen in mid-season. Historically interesting as the first french-american variety import to be introduced into Canada and one of the first, after Geneva (NY) research station propagation (post-1927), to be planted - (1930's by the Urbana Wine Company, later known as Gold Seal of Keuka Lake, and one other 5-acre private plot) - on trial acreages in the Finger Lakes region of New York, where it is still (10/2002) used by at least 3 wineries. Currently recommended for use in New Mexico and elsewhere as basis for acceptable ros? and red wines.
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