Madeleine Angevine is a white wine grape from the Loire Valley in France that is also popular in Germany, Kyrgyzstan[1] and Washington state.

Madeleine Angevine makes an attractive fruity wine with a flowery nose, similar to an Alsatian Pinot blanc.

[4] In Washington State, the grape has developed a cult following in the Puget Sound region for its floral character and easy-drinking nature.

Just when this crossing was made is not known, although the timing would suggest that it was while Georg Scheu – responsible for varieties such as Huxelrebe, Faberrebe, Kanzler, Regner, Scheurebe, Septimer, Siegerrebe and Würzer – was the Alzey Institute's Director.

In 1992, I asked Professor Dr. Alleweldt, then head of the Geilweilerhof State Institute for Grapevine Breeding, to see if he could discover more about our Mad Angie (as it is often known).

He located Georg Scheu's old breeding books in the Alzey archives and found that ‘Sämling 7672’ was – as Brock was originally told – an ‘open-pollinated progeny of Madeleine Angevine’.

Unless it was being grown in proximity to other early varieties for pollination, it seldom set a good crop and in some years, ripened at the end of August.