Emperor (grape)

Emperor is a red grape variety. Their origin is unknown. In the 1980s (viticulture in California ) were planted up to 7,000 hectares of the variety Emperor in California alone. However, in 2007, the area was only 312 acres, since it was largely replaced by the new variety Red Globe. Besides plantations in Chile, Argentina, Australia, Mexico and South Africa are known. Admitted she is also in Italy and Portugal.

See the article viticulture in Argentina, Winemaking in Chile, wine growing in South Africa, Viticulture in Italy, in Portugal viticulture and winemaking in the United States and the list of grape varieties.

Ethnicity: unknown.

Synonyms

Emperor is also known under the name Emparado, Genova, Genova pink, Red Emperador and Red Emperor.

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

In the ampelography the habit is described as follows:

• The shoot tip is open. She's just white wool hairy and provided with a crimson trace. The young leaves are slightly hairy and woolly spotted a light bronze color.
• The large leaves are five-lobed and sinuate medium low. The petiole is slightly elliptical closed. The blade is serrated blunt. The teeth are large compared to other cultivars. The leaf surface (also called leaf blade ) is vesicular coarse. In autumn the leaves turn partly reddish.
• The cylindrical to conical grape is large and quite dichtbeerig. The oval berries are also very large (23 x 17 mm) and dark red in color. The berry skin is thick and crisp. The berries are not very juicy.

The vigorous grape variety ripens about 40 days after Chasselas and is thus very late maturing. It matures 15 days later than the very successful grape variety Red Globe.