Malvasia Bianca di Candia

the variety is quite homogeneous, the main differences being fertility and cluster shape, both often depending on the choice of growth environments. The bud has an expanded apex, downy and light green with pink shades. The large, pentagonal, three- or five-lobed leaves are slightly wavy, smooth, of an intense green colour and almost glabrous. The petiolar sinus is open and U-shaped. The cluster is large, pyramidal, winged and semi-sparse. The medium-sized round golden-yellow berry in covered in a thick and consistent skin. The flesh is loose, with a simple or slightly aromatic-sweet flavor.

moderately vigorous vine with a semi-upright growth habit and medium long internodes. It adapts to all types of soil and climates, provided they are generally warm. Good drought resistance.

favors medium training systems and medium-long pruning. Due to its rusticity, it is also a very adaptable vine. Systems for full mechanisation are therefore also possible.

normal. Good resistance to winter cold and late frosts.

it gives wines of a deep straw-yellow colour, slightly scented, savoury and bitter. It is often vinified together with other grapes, because only in its traditional growing areas it can produce a harmonic, distinctive and fairly refined product.

Malvasia Bianca di Candia R2, TEA26.

Malvasia Bianca di Candia VCR404, VCR493.