🍇 Blauer Silvaner

Blauer Silvaner is a black-skinned wine grape variety (Vitis vinifera subsp. sativa) from Germany. VIVC passport number 11804 has the prime name SILVANER BLAU and states that Blauer Silvaner is its official name in Germany. The berry skin colour is recorded as black (noir), the flowers are hermaphrodite, the use is wine grape and the country of origin is Germany.

VIVC gives the pedigree, confirmed by markers, as a mutation of Silvaner Grün (green Silvaner), so the variety has no parents in the usual sense. No breeder or year is recorded. The passport lists 35 synonyms, among them Silvaner Blau, Schwarzer Silvaner, Blauer Österreicher, Blauer Schönfeilner, Rother Schönfeiler, Bodenseetraube, Süßschwarz, Sylvaner Bleu and Sylvaner Rouge.

VIVC also marks the variety as registered in the European Catalogue of grapevine varieties and as held by 14 institutions in several countries.

In Bavaria, the wine labelling ordinance BayWeinRAV (Annex 1, Part B, "varieties for which synonymous variety names may be used when labelling wines") lists Blauer Silvaner together with the synonym Silvaner. Green Silvaner appears in the same list with the synonyms Silvaner and Sylvaner.

On an EU wine label the name of a variety may be used if at least 85 % of the wine comes from it (Article 50 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33).