Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute

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The Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute was founded in 1872. In 1876 Professor Müller-Thurgau joined the institution, where he developed his name-sake variety. The Müller-Thurgau became the most planted grape vine in Germany. Professor Helmut Becker worked at the institute from 1964 until his death in 1989.

Geisenheim is the only German institution to award the highest academic degree that exists in winemaking.

[edit] See also

• Wine
• German wine
• Geilweilerhof Institute for Grape Breeding

[edit] Source

• Robinson, Jancis (Ed.) The Oxford Companion to Wine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, second edition, 1999.