Abrusco

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Abrusco
Synonyms Abrostine, Abrusco Nero, Abrusco Nero di Toscana, Abrusio
Art Grape vine ( Vitis vinifera subsp. Vinifera )
Berry color dark red
use
origin Italy ( Tuscany )
VIVC no. 32
ancestry

Variety of the noble grapevine

List of grape varieties

Abrusco is a red wine that is cultivated in the Italian region of Tuscany . It is generally not made into a single variety, but used as a blending partner . The dark and tannin-rich wine made from the fleshy, dark red grapes has a remarkable color strength and the red wine can therefore also be used as a cover wine . In contrast to so-called dye grapes, the juice of the grape is completely colorless. The ampelographers Breviglieri and Casini assigned this variety to the Colorino . Abrusco However, in the official lists of varieties out still as a separate species.

Synonyms

Abrusco is also known under the names Abrortine, Abrostalo, Abrostine, Abrostine Nero, Abrostino, Abrostolo, Abrostolo Dolce, Abrostolo Forte, Abrusco Nero, Abrusco Nero di Toscana, Abrusio, Abrustano Nero, Arostolo Dolce, Broustiana Rose, Colore del, Colorino, Colorino del Valdarno, Colorino di Lucca, Colorino di Valdarno, Colorino Pisano, Jomarello, Lambrusco, Raverusto and Tintiglia II are known.

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

In ampelography , the habitus is described as follows:

  • The shoot tip is open. It is woolly hairy, greenish with a slight bronze tinge ( anthocyanin ). The light green young leaves are slightly hairy.
  • The large leaves are five-lobed and deeply curved (see also the article leaf shape ). The stem bay is open in a U-shape, and the stem bay ends can overlap. The blade is serrated narrow and pointed.
  • The cone-shaped grape is usually double shouldered, large and dense. The round berries are small and deep bluish-purple in color.

The leaves of the vines sometimes turn completely reddish in color.

The grape variety ripens approx. 30 days after the Gutedel and belongs to the grape varieties of the middle third ripening period (see the chapter in the article grape variety). It is therefore ripening late. Abrusco is a variety of the noble grapevine ( Vitis vinifera ).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abrusco in the database Vitis International Variety Catalog of the Institute for Vine Breeding Geilweilerhof (English) June 2020

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