White wine . At auction each bottle made $275,000 making them the most expensive bottles of white wine ever sold. White wine White wine is a wine that is fermented without skin contact. The colour can be straw-yellow, yellow-green, or yellow-gold. It is produced by the alcoholic fermentation of the non-coloured pulp of grapes, which may have a skin of any colour. White wine has existed for at least 2500 years. The wide variety of white wines comes from the large number of varieties, methods of winemaking, and ratios of residual sugar. White wine is mainly from "white" grapes, which are green
Seibel grapes only four parent grapes: two European (Vitis Vinifera) grapes: Aramon and Alicante Bouchet … one wild American grape: Jaeger 70 (V. Rupestris x V.Lincicumii)… and one rootstock, AxR1, which was created by crossing Aramon with a wild American Vitis Rupestris. Although Seibel bred tens of thousands of grapes, he did so almost entirely by continually crossing and re-crossing his original varieties, all of which were descended from the original four vines, so the basic gene pool of his collection remained largely unchanged. Almost all later grapevine hybridizers, such as Bertille Seyve and his father-in-law Victor Villard, would simply breed one