Completer or Malanstraube is a white

Swiss wine Swiss wine is produced from nearly of vineyards, and the wines are mainly produced in the west and in the south of Switzerland, in the cantons of Geneva, Neuchâtel, Ticino, Valais and Vaud. White grape varieties are grown on 43% of the countr ...

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grown primarily in eastern Switzerland around Graubünden. The Completer vine was once

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d but has now become mostly

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though some Swiss winemakers will make limited quantities of wine harvested from the wild vines. J. Robinson ''Jancis Robinson's Wine Course'' Third Edition pg 108 Abbeville Press 2003 Wine produced from Completer tends to be very full bodied and

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.J. Robinson ''Jancis Robinson's Guide to Wine Grapes'' pg 59 Oxford University Press 1996

Lafnetscha

According to wine expert Jancis Robinson, some ampelographers speculate that the Lafnetscha grape grown in the

Valais Valais ( , , ; frp, Valês; german: Wallis ), more formally the Canton of Valais,; german: Kanton Wallis; in other official Swiss languages outside Valais: it, (Canton) Vallese ; rm, (Chantun) Vallais. is one of the 26 cantons forming the S ...

region in southwest Switzerland is actually Completer of which Lafnetscha is a known synonym.

Synonyms

Completer is also known under the synonyms Lafnaetscha, Lafnetscha, Lafnetsela, Lindauer, Malans, Malanstraube, Malanstraube Weisse, Räuschling Edelweiss, Zürichersee, Zürichseer, Zürirebe, and Zurichersee.Malanstraube
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Vitis International Variety Catalogue The Vitis International Variety Catalogue (VIVC) is a database of various species and varieties/cultivars of grapevine, the genus ''Vitis''. VIVC is administered by the Geilweilerhof Institute for Grape Breeding (''Institut für Rebenzüchtung Gei ...

, accessed 2010-07-14

References

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