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Trollinger (or Schiava) is a light-red, late-maturing wine grape variety that was originally cultivated in the provinces of Bolzano-Bozen (Alto Adige/South Tyrol) and Trento (Trentino).
It probably reached the southern regions of Germany during Roman times. The variety is first mentioned under that name in fourteenth century documents, for example Martin Luther drank it according to a report of the papal legate Alexander around 1520. In the 1960s, it was crossed with the white grape Riesling to produced the cross Kerner. [1]
Today it is almost exclusively cultivated on steep, sunny locations in the Württemberg wine region of Baden-Württemberg.
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- ^ Stuart Walton, Understanding, Choosing and Enjoying Wine Hermes House 2006, p. 181
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