Corvina

the bud is downy-tipped and whitish with green, bronze-highlighted small apical leaves. The medium-sized, pentagonal, five-lobed, slightly tomentose leaves have a lyre-shaped or a slightly open U-shaped petiolar sinus. The compact cluster is medium-small, cylindrical-pyramidal and has a prominent wing. The medium-sized, ellipsoidal berry has a blue-black colour. The skin has a medium thickness, the flesh is juicy and has a simple flavor

vine of good vigor with a semi-upright growth habit, long and little branched shoots, moderately strong medium-sized internodes. Its vegetation tends to be balanced. Very adaptable to different types of soils, provided they are not too fertile and humid, even calcareous. It prefers, at any rate, well-exposed plots and dry climates for a regular and healthy ripening of the grapes.

it adapts to different training systems and pruning. It prefers a long pruning with a balanced number of buds per vine. An adequate green pruning ensures an even ripening of the cluster. A substantially “delicate” vine, which difficultly adapts to mechanised training systems.

medium, more susceptible to botrytis, especially in tightly clustered biotypes, resistant to chlorosis. Susceptible to magnesium deficiency.

it gives a ruby-red wine with violet reflections, acidic, slightly tannic, full-bodied, vinous, not lacking in finesse but somewhat disharmonious. The Corvina is not vinified as a pure varietal, but together with Rondinella, Molinara, Corvinone etc. to create the famous Valpolicella, Bardolino wines etc. With an adequate drying and a special vinification, together with other varieties, it is used to produce Recioto and Amarone della Valpolicella. In dry environments it produces wines with hints of plum and caramel.

Corvina R6, VCR446, VCR448, ISVCV7, ISVCV13, ISVCV48, ISVCV78, ISVCV146.

Corvina VCR88, VCR89.