Colorino

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The Colorino red wine is cultivated in small quantities in all the provinces of Tuscany and in the province of Terni in the Umbria region . The name and some synonyms indicate that the dark and tannin-rich wine made from the fleshy, dark-red grapes has a considerable color strength and the 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 use of the Colorino variety has been increasingly promoted in the Chianti and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOC areas in recent years . At the end of the 1990s, 385 hectares of planted vineyards were registered in Italy.

This grape variety has a multitude of varieties that grow spontaneously in the forests of Tuscany and are there under the collective name Lambruschi . They differ mainly in the shape of the leaves and the shape of the grapes.

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

In ampelography , the habitus is described as follows:

  • The shoot tip is open. It is woolly hairy, greenish with a slightly bronze tinge. The light green young leaves are slightly hairy.
  • The large leaves are five-lobed and deeply indented. 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 about 30 days after the Gutedel and is therefore late-ripening.

Synonyms

The Colorino grape variety is also known under the synonyms Abrostine, Abrostino, Abrostolo dolce, Abrusco , Abrustano Nero, Broustina rose colore, Canino, Colorino di Lucca, Colorino di Valdarno, Colorino Pisano, Jomarello, Lambrusco, Raversusto and Tintiglia.

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