Garganega

Garganega is a white grape variety which is particularly common in the Italian region of Veneto. The vine is also common in the Italian regions of Lombardy and Umbria.

It is approximately 13,050 hectares ( 1998) acreage one of the most important Italian white grape varieties and the main component of important white wines, for example Berici, Euganean Hills, Gambellara or Soave. In addition, the grape variety for the production of sweet Recioto di Soave is being used.

In the dried state, the berries can be processed to Vino Santo. Local is also popular as a table grape varietal.

The late-ripening variety is very productive and brings fragrant wine with a pleasant, even if only slight almond and lemon flavor (→ aromas in wine) out. With rigorous yield restriction dense, full-bodied wines can be produced.

Garganega has a genetic proximity to the varieties Oseleta, Corvina Veronese, Rondinella, and Dindarella Pelara on In a study published in 2008, was also Catarratto Bianco lucido a kinship to the grape variety Garganega made ​​both Catarratto Bianco comune as. Due to the not yet determined parents of the variety Garganega, the exact phylogenetic relationship can not yet be specified. On the same occasion the earlier published conjecture was confirmed that the varieties Garganega and Grecanico Dorato are identical.

See also the article Viticulture in Italy and the list of grape varieties.

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

In the ampelography the habit is described as follows:

• The shoot tip is white wool with hairy very light reddish approach. The green, slightly white -colored young leaves are hairy slightly woolly.
• The medium-sized leaves ( see also the article sheet form) are usually five-lobed and strongly sinuate. The petiole is closed lyre -shaped. The leaf margin is serrated blunt. The teeth are set in semi-wide comparison of the varieties. The leaf surface (also called lamina ) is vesicular coarse.
• The drum-shaped cluster is large, 20-25 cm long and loose-. The roundish berries are medium in size and of rosé to a whitish color. The berry is juicy and slightly parfürmiertem taste; the juice is colorless.

Garganega is fairly resistant to fungal diseases. Revenues are regular and high.

Garganega matures about 30 days after Chasselas, and ranks among the late-ripening varieties. It is a variety of the noble vine (Vitis vinifera ). It has hermaphrodite flowers and is thus self- fruiting. When the wine-growing economic disadvantage is avoided, no return delivered to have male plants grow.

Synonyms

Garganega is also known under the name D' Oro, Dorana di Venetia, Bianca Garganega Garganega Biforcuta, frastagliata Garganega Garganega Comune di Gambellara Garganega, Garaganega Gentile, Garganega Grosso, piramidale Garganega Garganega rossa, Garganega Veronese, Garganegra, Grecanico, Ora, Oro, Ostesa and Ostesona known.