Albaranzeuli Bianco

Albaranzeuli Bianco is a white grape variety that is cultivated in the Italian region Sardinia. It is generally not extended varietal wine, but used as a blending partner. Although its cultivation is recommended in the province of Oristano, the area under vines was in the 1990s with small 23 hectares.

Safely presume close that the variety was imported during the Spanish occupation from 1323 to 1713 from Spain.

In Sardinia, the red variety Albaranzeuli Nero is grown.

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

Synonyms

The grape Albaranzeuli Bianco is also known under the name Albaranzèllu, Alvarenzeli, Alvarenzell, Alvaranzeuli Bianco, Laconari Bianca, Laconarzu Laconazzu Bianco and Liconargiu.

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

In the ampelography the habit is described as follows:

• The shoot tip is open. It is only slightly woolly hairy, greenish with easy rötlichfarbenem approach. The whitish - bright green young leaves are slightly hairy.
• The medium-sized leaves are five-lobed and deeply sinuate ( see also the article sheet form). The petiole is overlapping closed. The leaves are coarsely toothed.
• The cone - shaped to cylindrical bunch is medium and loose-. The roundish berries are medium in size and of a golden yellow color.

The grape ripens about 30 days after Chasselas and is thus regarded as late maturing.

Albaranzeuli Bianco 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.