Touriga Franca
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| Synonyms | see section synonyms |
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| Art | Grape vine ( Vitis vinifera subsp. Vinifera ) |
| Berry color | black blue |
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| origin | Portugal |
| VIVC no. | 12593 |
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'Touriga Franca' is an autochthonous red wine variety from Portugal. Although the variety is usually still registered under its old name 'Touriga Francesca', it can no longer be officially named (for example on labels). France had sued Portugal for failure to use this designation and won the case in 2002.
Origin, descent
The red wine variety 'Touriga Franca' is a natural cross of the varieties ' Marufo ' × ' Touriga Nacional ' and is an indigenous grape variety from Portugal.
distribution
It is recommended to grow them in the Trás-os-Montes and Beira Litoral regions . It is also approved in the regions of the Douro , Minho , Ribatejo , Oeste and Madeira . It is also used for port wine . With a planted vineyard area of around 7,440 hectares, it ranks 5th in Portugal's grape variety index. The worldwide cultivation area in 2010 was 11,590 ha.
Ampelographic features
- The tip of the shoot is very hairy, white, with a reddish tinge.
- The young leaf is round to slightly three-lobed, bronzed. The leaf is medium-sized, three- to weakly five-lobed with a V-shaped stem. The upper side of the leaf is coarse, strongly blistered, dark green and the underside gray-green and slightly rust-colored. The leaf margin is weakly serrated.
- The grape is medium-sized, pyramidal, shouldered and compact. The berries are medium-sized, round, black-blue, scented.
properties
The vines have strong growth and are productive. They prefer good, not too dry locations.
Wine
The variety produces ruby red, light, not too tannic red wines , which, however, do not reach the quality of the wines of the ' Touriga Nacional ' variety . However, it is more productive.
Synonyms
'Albino de Souza', 'Esgana Cao', 'Esgana Cao Tinto', 'Rifete', 'Tinta Barca', 'Touriga Frances', 'Touriga Francesa', 'Tourigo Frances'.
See also
Web links
literature
- Pierre Galet : Dictionnaire encyclopédique des cépages . 1st edition. Hachette Livre, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-01-236331-8 .
- Jancis Robinson : The Oxford Wine Lexicon . 3rd revised edition. Gräfe and Unzer Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8338-0691-9 .
- Richard Mayson: Port and the Douro . 1st edition. Hachette Livre, 2004, ISBN 978-1-84000-943-9 .
- Wolfgang Hubert, David Black Forest: Portugal and its wines . 2nd Edition. Hallwag, Gräfe and Unzer Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8338-0641-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ VIVC database Touriga Franca in the database Vitis International Variety Catalog of the Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof (English)
- ↑ Kym Anderson, Nanda R. Aryal: Which Winegrape Varieties are Grown Where? National and Global Winegrape Bearing Areas by Variety, 2000 and 2010 ; Wine Economics Research Center, University of Adelaide, South Australia, December 2013, revised July 2014. engl.
- ↑ a b c Hans Ambrosi , Bernd HE Hill, Erika Maul, Ernst H. Rühl, Joachim Schmid, Fritz Schumann: Farbatlas Rebsorten , 3rd edition, Eugen Ulmer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8001-5957-4 .
- ↑ Touriga Franca in the database Vitis International Variety Catalog of the Institute for Vine Breeding Geilweilerhof (English)