Glera

the variety is not homogeneous. The most widespread biotype is the round berry one (“Tondo”), with a more or less evident presence of sweet or green millerandage, which partly causes the organoleptic characteristics of the wine. The bud has an expanded, woolly, whitish-green apex. The medium-sized, pentagonal, three-lobed and blistered leaves have a dull green colour and are fairly tomentose on the underside. The Vor U-shaped petiolar sinus has overlapping edges. The cluster is large, pyramidal, semi-sparse or sparse, with more or less evident millerandage. The medium-sized, spheroid-ovoid, irregular berry has a golden-yellow, dotted, pruinose and thin skin. The flesh is juicy and acidulous, with a slightly aromatic flavour.

vine of good vigour with a downright growth habit and shoots with long internodes. It adapts to hilly terrains where it gives a good quality production and to climates that are not too dry as it suffers from summer drought. The use of low vigour and drought-resistant rootstocks favors the vegetative balance and enhances the quality of the product.

it adapts to various training systems, provided the pruning is long. Since it produces very long shoots, it prefers counter-espalier systems. It requires careful green pruning, if possible, by hand, for a regular production and ripening of the grapes.

normal, slightly susceptible to powdery mildew. It is obviously more or less susceptible to coulure or millerandage. It does not tolerate very long drought periods. It is susceptible to winter cold and grapevine phytoplasmas.

it produces a straw-yellow coloured wine, with an agreeable, delicate scent, dry flavor, rightly acidic, not very tannic, not very full-bodied with an agreeable, sweetish, harmonious taste. This variety also produces a sparkling, fruity, citrus-yellow, not very alcoholic, easy-to-drink wine and a finer more delicate type of sparkling wine. The sweetish type, produced in restricted area, is also interesting.

Glera VCR101, VCR124, VCR219, VCR223, ISV-VA4, ISV-VA6, ISV-VA8, ISVESAV10, ISVESAV14, ISVESAV19, TEA30.