Grape Variety: Slankamenka

Variety Name	Slankamenka
Common Synonyms	Slankamenka Bela
All Synonyms	Feher, Feher Szlanka, Feher Szlankamenka, Feherszlanka, Krantia, Madarka, Madarusa, Madjarka, Maghhiarca, Maghiarca, Magyarca, Magyrica, Magyarka, Magyorka du Banat, Majarca, Majarca Alba, Slancamenca, Slankamenka, Slankamenka Bela, Slankamenka Belaia, Slankamenka Biela, Slankamenka Blanche, Slankamenka Weiss, Szlanka, Ugorka Biela
Countries of Origin	Yugoslavia
Species	Vitis vinifera
References	Show 2 references Hide references Vitis International Variety Catalogue (VIVC). Federal Centre for Breeding Research on Cultivated Plants (BAZ). Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof (IRZ). August, 2007. Link The former National Grape Registry (NGR) was initially compiled and annotated using the earlier version of the Vitis database. The VIVC underwent a significant update beginning in 2007. Corresponding updates to this Registry will be made as necessary. Cindric, P., N. Korac, and V. Kovac. 2000. Grape Breeding in the Vojvodina Province, Proc. VII Int'l Symp. on Grapevine Genetics and Breeding, eds. A. Bouquet and J.M. Boursiquot, Acta Hort. 528, ISHS 2000.
Berry Color	White
Uses	Wine
Comments	Prior to World War II, native pontica-balcanica grape varieties like Slankamenka, Kevidinka, Ezerjo, Skadarka, Prokupac and Smederevka were the dominant grape varieties grown in Yugoslavia. Those 'old varieties' had high yield potential but produced wine of modest quality. Because of their sensitivity to low temperature and late maturity, they were not amenable for growing on modern high training systems. Foreign varieties were later incorporated into the breeding program at the experiment station in Sremski Karlovci in the Vojvodina Province in the Serbian region of Yugoslavia. (See reference 77). This grape cultivar was one of the older varieties that exhibited high yields but modest wines.

Slankamenka Selections

Information about: Selection Numbers | Registration Status

How Selection Numbers are Created

Questions are often asked as to how Foundation Plant Services (FPS) decides which number to assign to the grape selections in the foundation vineyard and whether those numbers relate to particular clones that may be the sources of the FPS selections.

The answer for most selections in the FPS foundation vineyard is that selection numbers are assigned by the next available (unused) number in sequence for that variety. There is nothing magical about it. For example, the first Sauvignon blanc selection that came to FPS in 1958 was named Sauvignon blanc FPS 01. The next Sauvignon blanc arrival received the name Sauvignon blanc FPS 02. Gaps in the numbering system in the current list of available selections mean that the omitted number was taken out of circulation for some reason, such as death from disease.

FPS intentionally chose the word "selection" rather than "clone" when referring to the products offered in the foundation vineyard. The word "clone" can be confusing and ambiguous. The major European collections have formal evaluation protocols for grape material to qualify material for release as an official "clone". Evaluation criteria includes field performance and wine making characteristics.

FPS does not perform formal clonal evaluations on the grapevine materials accepted for the foundation vineyard. The word "selection" at FPS simply means the material was collected from a single source vine from the vineyard of origin, whether within the United States or from a foreign vineyard. Some of our numbered selections have been through trials here in California but FPS does not conduct those trials or evaluations.

Having said that, there is a subgroup of selections at FPS that are official numbered clones from the formal clonal development programs in Europe. Those official clones are imported and sold by the owners as proprietary (trademarked) clonal material in the United States. The owners are large government or nursery entities in Europe, such as the ENTAV-INRA® clonal material from the IFV program in France. In order to preserve the identity of those clones, FPS agreed to assign them the same official clone number that the program in Europe gave them when released there. Cabernet Sauvignon 685 from France received the name Cabernet Sauvignon ENTAV-INRA® 685 at FPS. The owners of those proprietary clones are the ones who vouch for or affirm the authenticity of their trademarked clones.

Lastly, there is a small subset of "clones" that came to FPS in the 1980's prior to the establishment of the trademark programs for the European clones. Those clones also came to the United States associated with clone numbers assigned when the clones were developed in Europe. Many of the French clones in that group were developed at Dijon in France and the material has been known as the "Dijon clones". Those French clones were not protected by an official trademark program at the time they came to the United States. Some of those clones are no longer used in France and some were incorporated into the ENTAV-INRA trademark program.

FPS refers to this subset of clones as "generic clonal material". FPS agreed that we would assign those non-proprietary clones a new number at FPS rather than the European clonal number. They received their FPS numbers using the "next in order" rule. We may have a note on the plant description that the selection is "reported to be a certain French clone number". FPS cannot guarantee that such a selection is the official French clone number that it was formally associated with in France.

	Slankamenka 01
Registration Status	Registered Registered is the ultimate status in the California Department of Food & Agricultures Grapevine Registration & Certification Program. Registered selections have successfully completed all disease testing required by the regulations. Registered selections have also been confirmed as true to variety by experts using visual observations, DNA-based testing or both.
Source	Vineyard of Department of Viticulture & Enology, UC Davis via NCGR
Treatments	Heat treatment 93 days , Tissue Culture Excision
Comments	This cultivar was donated to the grapevine collection of the National Clonal Germplasm Repository (Davis) in 1983 by Dr. Harold Olmo, Professor of the Department of Viticulture & Enology, UC Davis. The material was at location X33: 5-6 during Dr. Olmo's tenure at UCD and location E5: 7-8 during Frederic Bioletti's tenure at UC. The accession has the number DVIT 958 at the NCGR. The accession somehow became misidentified as Grillo somewhere in the process of moving from the Department vineyard to the NCGR to Foundation Plant Services. The material came to FPS in the mid-1960's as Grillo and underwent heat treatment for 93 days. It successfully completed testing at FPS but was on an identification hold for possible mis-identification for a number of years. DNA testing in 2012 revealed the true identity of this cultivar as Slankamenka. The identification hold was lifted and the selection became Slankamenka FPS 01 in 2013.