Grape variety and grafted vine plant Trincadeira: all the secrets

Trincadeira

Native vine grown in Portugal, also called Tinta Amarela.

CULTIVATED AREA IN SPAIN

YEAR	1990	2000	2011
HECTARES	8.463	16.200	7.156

Budburst period: medium-early.
Ripening period: early.
Yield: rich.

Ampelographic characters:

the bud has an open yellowish-green apex with slight anthocyanin pigmentation. The pentagonal, three or five-lobed leaf has a close V-shaped petiolar sinus with overlapping lobes. The cluster is medium-sized, moderately compact. The berry
is medium, ovoid.

Cultural aptitude:

vine of high vigour and semi-upright growth habit. It adapts to warm environments and poor and dry soils.

Training system and pruning:

the conduction is not easy; it adapts to several pruning systems. In case of long pruning, it can lead to excessive yield.

Susceptibility to diseases and adverse conditions:

little susceptible to downy mildew, highly susceptible to powdery mildew and botrytis.

Enological potential:

it produces wines of intense garnet colour, of medium acidity, slightly spicy and herbaceous, that with aging become very fine, and with complex ripe fruit aromas.