 Aggressive vine pull schemes that included lucrative payments to growers for uprooting their vineyards and prohibition of using hybrid grapes in "Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée" (AOC) wines contributed to a sharp decline for the grape variety.By the end of the 1980s there was less than 1,000 hectares of the grape throughout France.Plantet was likely bred by Seibel to be a winter-hardy variety and to some extent it is.