Grillo (grape variety)

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Grillo
Synonyms Ariddu, Riddu, Rossese bianco - for more see the Synonyms section
Grillo
Art Grape vine ( Vitis vinifera subsp. Vinifera )
Berry color White
use
origin Italy
VIVC no. 5021
ancestry

Cross of
Catarratto bianco × Muscat d'Alexandrie

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The white grillo variety comes from Italy and is now mainly grown in Sicily . It is said to come from the Apulia region and only came to Sicily after the phylloxera disaster at the end of the 19th century, where it was first used in the famous Marsala dessert wine .

Today it is recommended in all the provinces of Sicily and approved on the Italian mainland in the province of Brindisi . Grillo produces pale yellow wines that are rich in alcohol and extract. They also have a slight tannin content . As a rule, the wines are blended with Catarratto Bianco comune , Catarratto Bianco lucido and Inzolia .

The area under vines with Grillo is around 2,250 hectares in Italy and is also grown in small quantities in Brazil , Australia and Mexico .

ancestry

A study published in 2010 suggests that Grillo was the result of a natural cross between the Muscat d'Alexandrie × Catarratto Bianco varieties . It was already known that the two varieties Catarratto Bianco comune and Catarratto Bianco lucido are genetically identical and, from today's perspective, are merely clones of the same grape variety.

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

In ampelography , the habitus is described as follows:

  • The shoot tip is open. She is hairy white wool. The shoot tip is whitish-green in color. The young leaves are hairy like a cobweb and light green in color.
  • The medium-sized, pentagonal leaves are five-lobed and barely curved. The stem bay is lyren-shaped open. The blade is bluntly serrated. The teeth are closely set compared to other varieties.
  • The cylindrical grape is medium-sized and has loose berries. The round berries are medium to large in size and golden yellow in color. The taste of the berries is neutral but sweet. The berry skin is thick-walled.

The vigorous grape variety ripens about 30 days after the Gutedel and is therefore considered to ripen late. The yields are usually high, so that targeted vine training has to reduce the yield in order to achieve good wine quality. Grillo is a variety of the noble grapevine ( Vitis vinifera ). It has hermaphroditic flowers and is therefore self-fruiting. In viticulture , the economic disadvantage of not having to grow male plants that produce yield is avoided.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guido Cipriani, Alessandro Spadotto, Irena Jurman, Gabriele Di Gaspero, Manna Crespan, Stefano Meneghetti, Enrica Frare, Rita Vignani, Mauro Cresti, Michele Morgante, Mario Pezzotti, Enrico Pe, Alberto Policriti, Raffaele Testolin: The SSR-based molecular profile of 1005 grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) accessions uncovers new synonymy and parentages, and reveals a large admixture amongst varieties of different geographic origin. In: Theoretical and Applied Genetics. Vol. 121, No. 8, 2010, pp. 1569-1585, doi : 10.1007 / s00122-010-1411-9 .

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