Rosette or Seibel 1000 is a wine
hybrid grape
Hybrid grapes are grape varieties that are the product of a crossing of two or more ''Vitis'' species. This is in contrast to crossings between grape varieties of the same species, typically ''Vitis vinifera'', the European grapevine. Hybrid gra ...
red-berries variety which originated with the work of
Albert Seibel
Albert Seibel (1844–1936) was a French physician and viticulturist who made hybrid crosses of European wine grapes (''Vitis vinifera'') with native North American grapes. His crosses are known as Seibel grapes.
Biography
Seibel was born in Auben ...
by a crossing of
Jaeger 70 with Vitis vinifera. Rosette is also the common ancestor of
St. Pepin and
La Crosse grapes. Rosette is used to produce
rosé
A rosé () is a type of wine that incorporates some of the color from the grape skins, but not enough to qualify it as a red wine. It may be the oldest known type of wine, as it is the most straightforward to make with the skin contact metho ...
wine.
See also
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Seibel grapes
Seibel grapes are a group of wine grape varieties which originated with the work of Albert Seibel crossing European grape with American grape species to increase disease resistance. They were planted widely in France during the 1950s but have seen ...
Red wine grape varieties
Seibel grapes
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