Malbech

the variety shows high variability in vigour, yield and cluster shape/ size. The bud has an open velvety whitish-green apex and large, orbicular, whole or three-lobed leaves with blistered upper side, partly red-veined, and a downy underside. The petiolar sinus is open and U- or V-shaped. The medium-large to medium-small pyramidal winged cluster tends to be compact. The berry is medium-large and thick, with thick skin and juicy flesh.

vine of medium vigour, with a semi-upright growth habit. The most suitable soils are clayey-calcareous and dry, but it gives excellent results in looser, sandy-loamy or skeleton-rich soils too.

it generally prefers expanded training systems with long but not rich pruning.

susceptible to downy mildew and averagely susceptible to powdery mildew. Susceptible to millerandage and coulure. It shows incompatibility in French-clone/Kober 5BB combinations.

it gives wines that are rich in colour, good-to-very-good structure, fruity, spicy, sometimes poor in acidity. In loose soils it gives birth to scented wines with round, sweet tannins.

Malbech ISV-R6; French clones: Inra-Entav 594, 595, 598, 1061.