Abrusco

Abrusco is a red grape that is cultivated in the Italian region of Tuscany. It is generally not extended varietal wine, but used as a blending partner. The gekelterte from the fleshy, dark red grapes and dark tannic wine has an impressive color strength and the red wine can thus also be used as a cover wine. The juice of the grape, however, is completely colorless in contrast to so-called dyer grapes. The ampelographers Breviglieri and Casini assigned this species to the Colorino. Abrusco but still out in the official lists of varieties as separate species.

Synonyms

Abrusco is also known under the name Abrusco Nero, Abrusco Nero di Toscana and Abrusio.

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

In the ampelography the habit is described as follows:

• The shoot tip is open. She is hairy woolly, slightly greenish with bronze approach ( anthocyanin ). The bright green young leaves are slightly hairy.
• The large leaves are five-lobed and deeply sinuate ( see also the article sheet form). The petiole is U-shaped open, the petiole ends can overlap. The leaves are narrow and pointed sawed.
• The cone- shaped grape is usually shouldered double, large and dichtbeerig. The roundish berries are small and deep bluish- violet color.

The foliage of the vines sometimes turns completely red.

The grape ripens about 30 days after the Chasselas and is one of the varieties of the middle third maturation period ( see the section in the article vine ). It is thus late maturing. Abrusco is a variety of the noble vine (Vitis vinifera ).