Vermentino

the variety is relatively homogeneous, so that Pigato and Favorita are also recognized as synonyms of Vermentino. The bud has an expanded, cottony, whitish apex, unfolded apical leaflets of white colour with carminate edges. The leaf is medium-large, pentagonal and five-lobed, it has sinuses with overlapping edges and a dark green slightly bulbous flap, almost hairless. The petiolar sinus is U-shaped or closed lyre shaped. The lower page is arachnoid. The cluster is medium-large, cylindrical-pyramidal, sometimes a little sparse. The berry is of medium-large size, spheroid, of yellowish colour. The skin is pruinose and medium in thickness, with a persistent navel. The pulp is juicy and neutral tasting.

vigorous vine, with a slight upright growth habit and long, quite robust, plastic shoots. It prefers, or rather almost requires, hillside locations and well exposed soils, neither fertile nor humid.

adaptable to different relatively expanded systems of training and pruning, even short. It accepts forms of training for integral mechanization.

susceptible to powdery and downy mildew on clusters in generally humid years. Susceptible to hoarfrost and late frosts. It shows incompatibility issues on 420A.

it produces a wine of yellow colour with golden reflections, with a broad and fresh bouquet; of dry, round, warm, delicately aromatic taste; it improves with a little aging.

Vermentino, VCR1, VCR2, VCR12, VCR147, VCR162, VCR163, (Pigato biotype) VCR367, VCR370, CAPVS1, CAPVS3, CAPVS12, CVT14, CVT55, CVT66, CVT78, CVT84, CVT105, CVT121; French clones: Inra-Entav 640, 766, 856; MAREM1, MAREM3.