It belongs to the generation of "old" grapes there were replaced (starting in the seond third of the 18th) already in the 19th and at last in the 20th century. Like Heunisch, Knipperlé, Elbling, Kläpfer, Gänsfüßer... there are many more names. Note that in contrast, Orléans always was considered a noble grape.
Now, "old" does not necessarily equal "good". Historians know that only too well. These grapes were considered as lowly, and for a reason. However, the same "low-quality peasant vines" whose squeezed fruits filled the mighty 10,000s and even 100,000s litres vats in our castles (still to be seen today in the Heidelberger Schloss, Schloss Hohentübingen) with an equally sour and indifferent fluid, and that today make paleographic novices wonder whether the humungous figures in the old tithe registers - of Gargantuan dimensions - can at all be right (yes, they are!)... these same *v*ines might yield a very remarkable and noble *w*ine when old and being kept to a very low yield on purpose. Thus, it might well be worth to revive them at least to a limited extent.
PS: one of the few bottles of Räuschling now sells at double to triple price of the cooperative's other wines.
In reply to Räuschling by torsten
It belongs to the generation
It belongs to the generation of "old" grapes there were replaced (starting in the seond third of the 18th) already in the 19th and at last in the 20th century. Like Heunisch, Knipperlé, Elbling, Kläpfer, Gänsfüßer... there are many more names. Note that in contrast, Orléans always was considered a noble grape.
Now, "old" does not necessarily equal "good". Historians know that only too well. These grapes were considered as lowly, and for a reason. However, the same "low-quality peasant vines" whose squeezed fruits filled the mighty 10,000s and even 100,000s litres vats in our castles (still to be seen today in the Heidelberger Schloss, Schloss Hohentübingen) with an equally sour and indifferent fluid, and that today make paleographic novices wonder whether the humungous figures in the old tithe registers - of Gargantuan dimensions - can at all be right (yes, they are!)... these same *v*ines might yield a very remarkable and noble *w*ine when old and being kept to a very low yield on purpose. Thus, it might well be worth to revive them at least to a limited extent.
PS: one of the few bottles of Räuschling now sells at double to triple price of the cooperative's other wines.