Deep, dark color, aromas of ripe black berries and subtle tannins.Wines made from the Regent variety are reminiscent of Mediterranean wines, thereby filling a niche in the German wine palette.What is most remarkable about this variety is its high resistance to fungal diseases, such as mildew.

These fungal diseases were unwittingly imported from America for over 100 years and are still a major problem today for European wine growers.The vines need to treated regularly with fungicides and organic wine growers use sulfur, copper, baking soda and other plant strengthening products.The demand for vines that combine the American disease resistance properties and the quality potential of European varieties has long been established.

Forum Touts for this Environmentally Friendly Grape Variety

In 1967,at Geilweilerhof in the Pfalz, saw the first Regent saplings that were bred here.Today there are more than 2,000 hectares planted with the Regent variety in Germany alone.This variety is particularly loved by organic growers as the need to treat the plants with fungicides is greatly reduced.While Geilweilerhof continues to work on the crossing disease resistant varieties, the Wine Institute of Freiburg and in other wine institutes in Switzerland the search continues.At the Regent-Forum on September 16 in the town of Auggen in Baden, many lovely examples of this wine were available for sampling.

2011.10.14