Comments on: Syrah-ously: What’s the deal with China’s Cabernet Gernsicht? https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2013/10/21/syrah-ously-whats-the-deal-with-chinas-cabernet-gernsicht-grape/ Wine and the World's Biggest Market Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:40:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Dworkin https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2013/10/21/syrah-ously-whats-the-deal-with-chinas-cabernet-gernsicht-grape/#comment-348435 Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:40:27 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/?p=5001#comment-348435 Jim,

A very nice and complete article as usual.
I am discovering the Gerniscght and you know we planted two ha in Laixi.
I will try to give you some answers…next vinatge, as it’ll be the 1st harvest of our Cabernet Gernischt.
All the best!

]]> By: Niels https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2013/10/21/syrah-ously-whats-the-deal-with-chinas-cabernet-gernsicht-grape/#comment-334555 Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:09:04 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/?p=5001#comment-334555 Great article on this ever-lasting miracle! I very much like the idea that actually Gernischt in China could be more than one variety. As a result, a single DNA test will not finish the speculations.

Here is one additional aspect that always comes to my mind when people say it is so obvious that “Gernischt” comes from misreading “m” for “rn”. Please keep in mind that von Babo did not use the fonts that we are now familiar with on our computers. He probably wrote everything by hand, and the usual handwriting in German speaking countries was quite different at that time. The “r” at that time looked very different from how it looks now, so it would have been unlikely that in 1892 somebody makes this very mistake. But maybe the error happend much later when they already used typewriters. Does anybody know when the name “Gernischt” was used first in history?

Just a tiny detail, but it adds an interesting twist to the story.

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