Canaiolo

Canaiolo Nero or just Cannaiolo is an ancient red grape from Italy. Its cultivation is confined to central Italy and Sardinia. In the 1990s, the area under vines was 4,306 hectares.

As part of the Chianti, the variety is particularly common in Tuscany. Less frequently it is found in other central Italian wine regions, as in the Emilia- Romagna and Umbria. Approved is the variety in the DOC wines of Barco Reale di Carmignano, Carmignano, Chianti, Chianti Classico, Colli dell'Etruria Centrale, Colli Etruschi Viterbesi, Colline Lucchesi, Lake Corbara, Maremma Toscana, Monte Carlo, Rosso di Montepulciano, Rosso Orvietano, San Gimignano, Torgiano Torgiano Rosso Riserva and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano.

Usually Canaiolo Nero is expanded only as a blending partner, he brings in addition to the intense color, especially a distinctive fragrance with. Unmixed vinified the wine is rather bitter and intense colors.

In Umbria there is also a white version, Canaiolo Bianco ( in Orvieto as Drupeggio known). Without economic importance is the pink version, the Canaiola pink.

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 open. She is strong wolligweiß hairy, with slight reddish approach. The young leaves are woolly haired and red in color.
• The thick leaves are round, medium to strong five-lobed. The petiole is shaped elliptically the ends of the petiole overlap. The blade is serrated blunt. The teeth are medium in size compared to the varieties. The leaf surface (also called lamina ) is fine bubbles.
• The drum-shaped grape is sometimes shouldered, tall and dichtbeerig. The roundish to oval berries are medium in size and of a plum -like blue-black color. The shell of the berry is thick skinned to medium. The juice of the berries tastes slightly spicy.

The variety Canaiolo nero drives from mid-early and ripens about 35 days after the Chasselas. It is therefore one of the late-ripening varieties.

Canaiolo nero is a variety of the noble vine (Vitis vinifera ). It has hermaphrodite flowers and is thus self- fruiting. When the wine-growing economic drawback is avoided, no return delivered to male plants need to grow.

Synonyms

The grape Canaiolo nero is also known under the following synonyms: Caccione Nero, Cacciuna nera, Cagnina, Calabrese, Canaiola, Cannaiolo, Cannaiolo Borghese, Cannaiolo Cascolo, Cannaiolo colore, Cannaiolo Grosso, Canaiolo nero a Raspo rosso, nero Cannaiolo commune, Canaiolo nero grosso, Canaiolo nero minuto, Cannaiolo pratese, Cannaiolo Romano, Cannaiolo Toscano, Canaiuola, Canajolo, Canajolo Lastri, Canajolo Piccolo, Canina, Cannaiola, Tindillaro, Tindilloro, Uva Cannaiolo, Uva colore canaiola, Uva dei cani, Donna Uva, Uva Fosca, Uva Grossa, Uva marchigiana, Uva Merla, Vitis vinifera etrusca