Chelois

The red grape variety is a complex interspecific new variety Seibel 5163 (Seibel 2510 x Gaillard 2) x Seibel 5593 (Seibel 880 x Seibel 4202). Synonyms are Chelois Noir, S 10-878 and Seibel 10-878. The hybrid was crossed by the French breeder Albert Seibel (1844-1936). It contains genes of Vitis aestivalis, Vitis cinerea, Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rupestris and Vitis vinifera. Among others the varieties Afus Ali and Vivarais were involved. By the way, the variety Soleil Blanc was created with the same parents. Chelois was a cross-breeding partner of the new varieties Ventura and Vincent.

Chelois - Weintraube und Blatt

The early-ripening, high-yielding vine is resistant to both types of mildew, but sensitive to winter frost. It produces spicy red wines or rosé wines with cherry aroma, which are often blended with the Chancellor or Chambourcin varieties. In France, it was still present on around 900 hectares at the end of the 1950s, but the stock has been extremely reduced as a result of the EU ban on hybrids. The variety, now threatened with extinction, is cultivated in small quantities in France (1 ha) and in the USA in the state and Pennsylvania (1 ha). In 2016, only these two hectares of vines were designated (Kym Anderson statistics).

Pictures: Ursula Brühl, Doris Schneider, Julius Kühn Institute (JKI)

Voices of our members

In the past, you needed a wealth of encyclopaedias and specialist literature to keep up to date in your vinophile professional life. Today, Wine lexicon from wein.plus is one of my best helpers and can rightly be called the "bible of wine knowledge".
Prof. Dr. Walter Kutscher
Lehrgangsleiter Sommelierausbildung WIFI-Wien

Welcome back!

Chelois

Voices of our members

The world's largest Lexicon of wine terms.

EVENTS NEAR YOU