Aleatico
Probably introduced in Italy by the Greeks, this cultivar subsequently spread to Apulia, Latium, Tuscany and particularly to the Elba island.
CULTIVATED AREA IN ITALY
|
YEAR |
1970 |
1982 |
1990 |
2000 |
2010 |
|
HECTARES |
2.120 |
1.390 | 589 | 515 | 206 |
CULTIVATED AREA IN FRANCE
|
YEAR |
1968 | 1979 | 1988 | 1998 | 2008 | 2018 |
|
HECTARES |
– | – | 25 | 30 | 14 | 20 |
Bud-burst period: everage.
Ripening period:everage-late.
Yield: average and constant.
Ampelographic characters:
Aleatico has a good internal heterogeneity, especially as far as bunch shape is concerned. The sprout presents an expanded, downy, amber-green apex. The leaf is medium-sized, pentagonal, three- or five-lobed with a closed lyre-shaped petiolar sinus. The underside is glabrous. It presents a medium, elongated, cylindrical, conical cluster, with one wing. The medium berry, with pruinose skin, has a muscat-flavoured, juicy flesh.
Cultural aptitude:
vine of medium vigor with semi-rigid vegetation. It prefers dry and windy environments, with good exposure on hilly and loose, argillaceous calcareous soils.
Training system and pruning:
it adapts to more or less expanded training systems with generally long pruning.
Susceptibility to diseases and adverse conditions:
normal. Sometimes it shows green millerandage during cold and rainy springs.
Enological potential:
it produces red wines with a fine and characteristic muscat and berries scent, particularly raspberry and blackberry. Excellent dessert wines can also be obtained from grapes dried on the vine or in suitable rooms.
Clones in propagation:
Aleatico VCR438; French clones: Inra-Entav 802.
Clones undergoing homologation procedure:
Aleatico VCR261.
Aleatico
VCR438
Enological potential:
Origin: Campoliveri (LI)
Registration year: 2009
VARIETY EVERAGE
SENSORY PROFILE
—●— Variety everage
—●— VCR438
