Who would have thought that the first three post-war Chancellors of the Federal Republic of Germany would one day be honored with a grape variety? According to a legend, the name of this cross between Müller-Thurgau and Silvaner, which had already been brought to a successful conclusion by Georg Scheu in Oppenheim in 1927, can be traced back to these three heads of state. Because as Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding and José Vouillamoz wrote so beautifully: the wine from this grape variety is “educated like Adenauer, full and round like Ludwig Erhard and elegant like Georg Kiesinger”. Be that as it may, the Chancellor sprouts early and matures over a long period of time, during which it also develops a lot of must weight. Its foliage is extremely dense, which can easily lead to an infestation of powdery mildew or downy mildew. The Chancellor never really gained a foothold in Germany's vineyards; the few hectares have been in decline since the turn of the century, so that today there are only 334 hectares in production in the Palatinate and Rheinhessen.
