[1] In Austria, where it was grown on 365 hectares (900 acres) as of 1999,[2] Bouvier is used primarily for Sturm—a seasonally produced semi-fermented grape must—and young-bottled wines.

Its wines are golden yellow, mild in taste and have a Muscat aroma.

[4] Winery owner Clotar Bouvier (1853–1930) discovered a vine of this variety in his vineyard in Herzogburg, Ober-Radkersburg (in present-day Slovenia) in the year 1900.

He used this vine as a basis for breeding and, after several years of selection, started to sell it, after which it became widely spread across Austria-Hungary.

[2] In 1963 at the Kölyuktetö viticultural research facility in Eger, viticulturists László Bereznai and József Csizmazia crossed Bouvier with Eger 2 (a selfling of Villard blanc) to produce the Hungarian wine grape Bianca.