red grape · rare
Alibernet
Odesa, Ukraine
Say it
ah·lee·behr·net
Portmanteau of parent-grape names Alicante and Cabernet; Czech convention fixes stress on the first syllable.
On the palate
blackberryblack currantblack plumblack peppermintchocolate
How you spot it blind: inky teinturier color with a peppermint snap from Alicante parentage
The story
First written down · 1948, Odesa, Ukraine
Bred at Odesa's Tairov Institute in 1948 from Alicante Henri Bouschet × Cabernet Sauvignon; entered state grape registers of Ukraine, Slovakia, and Czech Republic by the mid-1970s.
Family tree: Alicante Henri Bouschet × Cabernet Sauvignon
Where it lives
Odesa and Mykolaiv, Ukraine · Nitra and South Slovakia, Slovakia · Moravia, Czech Republic
Shows up as
still red