Syrah

the vine has medium-to-very productive biotypes that give birth to wines of different quality levels. The bud is medium or globose, cottony, greenish-white coloured with carminate edge. The leaf, with a smooth or slightly wavy flap and a lower side averagely rich in short hairs, is five-lobed, medium-to-large and has a U-shaped or closed lyre-shaped petiolar sinus with slightly overlapping edges. The cluster is medium-sized, elongated, sometimes winged, cylindrical, from compact to semi-sparse depending on the clones. The berry is medium-sized, oval with very pruinose skin and has a sweet and savoury pulp.

vine of good vigour with expanded growth habit and long and fragile shoots, therefore susceptible to spring winds. Well adaptable to warm, bright and dry environments, but not such as to induce it to water stress.

it prefers relatively expanded training systems and long pruning. In warmer areas spur pruning may be convenient. In warmer areas spur pruning may be convenient.

susceptible to botrytis, especially when fully ripe, and mites. Good resistance to winter cold and late frosts. Susceptible to chlorosis. Poorly compatible to the graft with 140Ru. It suffers from a pathological manifestation called “Syrah decline”: all the French clones start showing the symptoms after 5/6 years. Attualmente si consiglia di non utilizzare i cloni francesi più sensibili come il 99, 73, 381, 383, 301, 382 e 585. It is currently recommended not to use the most susceptible French clones such as 99, 73, 381, 383, 301, 382 and 585. Clone ISV-R1 does not appear to be affected by this syndrome.

it produces a ruby-red wine tending to violet, of good structure and good alcoholic level, very aromatic, fine and complex, tannic. Wines can be made especially fruity and interesting also for blending with less aromatic wines of other varieties.

Syrah VCR246, VCR261; ISV-R1; French clones: Inra-Entav 100, 174, 300, 382, 470, 471, 524, 525, 585, 747, 877.