Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute

Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute
	Building of the Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute
Location	49°59′03″N 7°57′41″E / 49.98417°N 7.96139°E
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	Location in Germany

The Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute was founded in 1872 and is located in the town of Geisenheim, in Germany's Rheingau region. In 1876 Swiss-born professor Hermann Müller joined the institute, where he developed his namesake grape variety Müller-Thurgau, which became Germany's most-planted grape variety in the 1970s. Professor Helmut Becker worked at the institute from 1964 until his death in 1989.^[1]

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

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

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