SYLVANER
A high-yielding white-wine grape widely grown in the Alsace region of France, Germany and Central Europe. Used to produce a lightly spicy white with floral flavors and mild intensity. Less popular in California than Johannisberg Riesling.
Sylvaner
[Scharvaner]
In Germany this is the fat counterpoint to Riesling's grace, but at best it can be equally aristocratic and full of character. Unfortunately it can crop heavily, with bland consequences.
Sylvaner
Often spelled Silvaner in Germany. It produces a lighter, shorter lived wine than the noble Riesling. Also grown in Alsace, California and Switzerland.
Sylvaner: Sylvaner was once the most widely planted grape of Alsace, France, but now only accounts for 15% (and dropping). It is also grown in Germany and Central Europe. The grape produces a pleasant, but bland, white wine.
Sylvaner / Silvaner (sil-vay'-ner)
Historically one of the major white wine grape varieties of Germany. Not as long lived or as intense as the Riesling grape, Sylvaner is still popular in parts of Germany.
SYLVANER
German grape, generally of lesser quality than Riesling and usually planted as a blending grape.
Sylvaner - (Sill-VAH-ner)
German grape (sometimes spelled Silvaner there), considered secondary to Riesling in quality but planted widely as a blending grape. Vinified as a varietal, it makes a light, fruity quaffing wine.
Sylvaner
Muscat grape
Riesling
Gewürztraminer
Clevner de Heiligenstein
Auxerrois Blanc
Pinot Blanc
"Tokay" / Pinot Gris / Tokay Pinot Gris (The use of any form of Tokay is being phased out to avoid trading on the name of wines from Tokaji.) ...
SYLVANER: (a.k.a Silvaner). Widely grown in the Alsace region of France, Germany and Central Europe.
Alsace Sylvaner / Gewürztraminer / White Bordeaux / White Burgundy / White Rhõne / Sauvignon Blanc (California or New Zealand) / Chardonnay (Australia or California)
Chicken - Kiev
Alsace Riesling / Bergerac Rouge / Australian Chardonnay ...
Silvaner Sylvaner is still to be found throughout Central Europe, in Germany and Alsace, France, although plantings have decreased considerably. There are now small plantings in California and Australia.
Characteristics ...
MADELEINE SYLVANER: Vinifera grape suitable for white-winemaking. Ripens early, with consequent susceptibility to attack by bunch rots, birds and wasps. Wine is aromatic and light, useful for blending with other intensely flavored wines.
Silvaner or Sylvaner has Eastern Europe as its origin, and is still widely planted in the Czech republic. It came to prominence as Germany's most planted grape before the productive Müller-Thurgau took over.
In this region are also cultivated Silvaner (or Sylvaner), Pinot Gris (called Rülander), Müller-Thurgau, Gewürztraminer, Pinot Blanc (Weißburgunder), Chardonnay, Riesling Renano (Rheinriesling), Sauvignon Blanc and Moscato Giallo (Goldenmuskateller).
It does have distant relatives in the Sylvaner (or Franken) Riesling and the crosses, Emerald Riesling (with Muscadelle du Bordelais) and Müller-Thurgau (with Sylvaner).
White wines from Alsace such as Riesling, Sylvaner and Pinot Blanc go very well with fish and seafood meals.
Gewurztraminer is better with foie gras, spiced dishes, strong cheeses or as a dessert wine.
Müller-Thurgau is also known as Rivaner (Austria, Germany, Luxemburg, and especially for dry wines), Riesling x Sylvaner, Riesling-Sylvaner (Switzerland), Johannisberg (Wallis canton in Switzerland) and Rizlingszilváni (Hungary) ...
About 90 percent of German wines are white. Riesling, Sylvaner, Müller-Thurgau, and Gewürztraminer grapes create the soft, fragrant, low-alcohol wines for which the country is famous.
Regions outside Europe ...
Hybrid white wine grape made in Germany by crossing Riesling and Sylvaner. Advantageous for a better ripening over a wider range of sites, but has low acidity and does not age as well as Riesling.
Elbling (red/white) ...
Alsace, in northwest France, produces some delicious full flavoured white wines from grape varieties such as Gewürztraminer, Tokay Pinot Gris, Riesling, Muscat, Pinot Blanc and Sylvaner.
Within a generation it had become Germany's third most-planted grape after Riesling and Sylvaner and may eventually move into second place.
In the Styria region of Austria the variety is occasionally referred to as the Muskat-Sylvaner.
SYLVANER
Alsatian white Type of vine in general producing a standard wine of carafe.
SYRAH
Type of vine in strong extension in the Coasts of the Rhone and the South. Give a wine very coloured, astringent, with the perfume of violet.
 See also: Riesling, Wine, Grape, Region, White
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