Zierfandler

Zierfandler is probably a cross between Roter Veltliner and something like Traminer.[http://www.winesfromaustria.com/data/doku2005/docu2005_chapter1.pdf Documentation Austrian Wine 2005] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927135609/http://www.winesfromaustria.com/data/doku2005/docu2005_chapter1.pdf |date=September 27, 2007 }} A "weiss" (white) form is found in Hungary.

Zierfandler may be the inadvertent origin of the name Zinfandel, which has its roots in a Croatian grape collected by the Habsburg monarchy in Vienna. George Gibbs, a horticulturist on Long Island, received several shipments of vines from the Imperial nursery in the 1820s, one of which he called "Black Zinfardel of Hungary".{{cite book | last = Sullivan | first = Charles L | title = Zinfandel: A History of a Grape and Its Wine | publisher = University of California Press | date = 2003-09-02 | location = Berkeley | pages = [https://archive.org/details/zinfandelhistory00sull/page/167 167–175] | isbn = 978-0-520-23969-2 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/zinfandelhistory00sull/page/167 }} [http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10047/10047.ch02.pdf Chapter 2] This doesn't correspond to any known grape, but Webster suggests that Zinfandel is a corruption of tzinifándli (czirifandli), a Hungarian word derived from the German word Zierfandler.[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/zinfandel Zinfandel etymology] Merriam-Webster Since Zierfandler is very different from Zinfandel, someone would have had to have mixed up labels along the way.

There were 98.24ha in Austria in 2005, less than 0.3% of Austria vineyards, of which 85.03ha were in Thermenregion. It is traditionally blended with Rotgipfler in that region. These wines, known as Spätrot-Rotgipfler, are a particular speciality of Gumpoldskirchen, south of Vienna.

It is grown in Hungary under the name Cirfandli and in Slovenia as Zerjavina.

The characteristic of the grapes is the way the sides exposed to the sun turns red as they ripen. Zierfandler ripens late, and is prone to noble rot. The leaves are large and 3-5 lobed. The bunches are large, conical and sometimes winged.

Cilifai, Cilifan, Cirfandli, Cirifai, Cirifai Piros, Cirifan, Gumpoldskirchener, Gumpoldskirchener Spätrot, Gumpoldskirchener Spätroth, Kesoei Piros, Kirmizi Zierfahndler, Nemes Cirfandli, Piros Cirfandli, Piroscirfandli, Raifler, Reifler Rot, Roter Raifler, Roter Reifler, Roter Zierfandler, Roth Hensch, Rother Raifler, Rother Zierfahndler, Rothhinschen, Rothreifler, Rotreifler, Rubiner, Spätrot, Zerjavina and Zierfandler Rot.{{cite web | last =Maul | first =Erika |author2=Töpfer, Reinhard |author3=Eibach, Rudolf | title = Vitis International Variety Catalogue | publisher = Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof (IRZ), Siebeldingen, Germany | date = 2007 | url = http://www.vivc.de | access-date = 2007-12-19}}

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• [http://www.vivc.de/datasheet/dataResultBibliog.php?topic=13443 VIVC Bibliography]

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