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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
Province of Trento

The Province of Trento , often referred simply as Trentino, is an Autonomous area Provinces of Italy of Italy. In the local languages, typically the word Trentin is used....
 (Trentino).

It probably reached the southern regions of Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 during Roman
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 times. The variety is first mentioned under that name in fourteenth century documents, for example Martin Luther
Martin Luther

Martin Luther was a Germans monk, theology, university professor, priest, father of Protestantism, and Protestant Reformers whose ideas started the Protestant Reformation and changed the course of Western culture....
 drank it according to a report of the papal legate Alexander around 1520.






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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
Province of Trento

The Province of Trento , often referred simply as Trentino, is an Autonomous area Provinces of Italy of Italy. In the local languages, typically the word Trentin is used....
 (Trentino).

It probably reached the southern regions of Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 during Roman
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 times. The variety is first mentioned under that name in fourteenth century documents, for example Martin Luther
Martin Luther

Martin Luther was a Germans monk, theology, university professor, priest, father of Protestantism, and Protestant Reformers whose ideas started the Protestant Reformation and changed the course of Western culture....
 drank it according to a report of the papal legate Alexander around 1520. In the 1960s, it was crossed with the white grape Riesling
Riesling

Riesling is a white grape variety which originates in the Rhine region of Germany. Riesling is an aromatic grape variety displaying flowery, almost perfumed, aromas as well as high acidity....
 to produced the cross Kerner
Kerner (grape)

The Kerner grape is an aromatic white grape variety. It was bred in 1929 by August Herold by crossing Trollinger and Riesling. Herold was working at a plant breeding station in Lauffen in the W?rttemberg region of Germany....
.

Today it is almost exclusively cultivated on steep, sunny locations in the Württemberg wine region
Württemberg (wine region)

W?rttemberg is a region for quality German wine, and is located in the historical region of W?rttemberg in southwestern Germany, which today forms part of the federal state of Baden-W?rttemberg....
 of Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg

Baden-W?rttemberg is one of the 16 States of Germany of the Federal Republic of Germany. Baden-W?rttemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine?but one which has some of its major cities straddling the banks of the Neckar River ....
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