Life Style / Wine Grapes / Silvaner (Gruen): (a.k.a Sylvaner). Now regarded as indigenous to Austria, DNA analysis (2002) showing that it is derived from a Traminer x ?sterreichisch Weiss cross, the latter variety being a Heunisch seedling. The Geilweilerhof database (above) lists over 60 synonym names for this variety, including Sonoma Riesling. Widely grown in the Alsace region of France, Germany and Central Europe. Suited to temperate zones, the vine is high-yielding and the grape produces an 'easy' white wine with lightly spicy, floral flavors and mild intensity. Once very popular in California, it seems to have fallen victim to changing fashion in recent years and been replaced by the Riesling variety. Belief that it had been crossed with the latter grape to yield the M?ller-Thurgau variety is now disproved. It is believed to be involved as one parent in the creation of other crossed versions (e.g: Bacchus, Optima).
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Lifestyle / Wine Grapes / Silvaner (Gruen): (a.k.a Sylvaner). Now regarded as indigenous to Austria, DNA analysis (2002) showing that it is derived from a Traminer x ?–sterreichisch Weiss cross, the latter variety being a Heunisch seedling. T MORE
Lifestyle / Wine Grapes / Weisser Silvaner: (See Elbling above). MORE
Lifestyle / Wine Grapes / Oraniensteiner: (No information on this grape at present other than it is a white-wine producing variety released by the Geisenheim Research Institute in 1985 and is the result of a Riesling x Silvaner (Gruen) crossi MORE