🍇 Prinzipal

Prinzipal is a white wine grape variety (Vitis vinifera subsp. sativa) bred in Germany. According to the international grape catalogue VIVC, it is a cross of Geisenheim 323-58 and Ehrenfelser made in 1971 by Helmut Becker at the Institute of Grapevine Breeding of Hochschule Geisenheim University. VIVC gives 1997 as the year of protection and lists the synonyms Geisenheim 7116-26 and GM 7116-26.

The German Federal Plant Variety Office (Bundessortenamt) includes Prinzipal in its Descriptive Variety List for Grapevines 2024 among the white yield varieties (identification number RBE 105). It is approved since 1999; the breeder and maintainer is Hochschule Geisenheim, Institut für Rebenzüchtung.

VIVC records the resistance loci Ren3 and Ren9, complete seed formation and hermaphrodite flowers, and states that Prinzipal is registered in the European Catalogue. It is held in the collections AUT024, CAN026, DEU454, DEU455, HUN047, ITA362 and SVN043. VIVC area statistics show 4 ha in Germany in 2002 to 2004 and 2 ha in 2017 (3 ha in 2016).

If a grape is named on the label of an EU wine, it makes up at least 85% of that wine.