Colorino

The red variety Colorino is cultivated in small quantities in all the provinces of Tuscany and in the Province of Terni in the Umbria region. The name and some synonyms indicate that the gekelterte from the fleshy, dark red grapes and dark tannic wine has an impressive color strength and the 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 use of the variety Colorino has been touted in recent years in the DOC areas of Chianti and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano again reinforced. The late 1990s, 385 hectares under vines in Italy were registered.

This grape has a variety of game species that grow spontaneously in the forests of Tuscany and be guided there by the collective name Lambruschi. They differ mainly in the shape of the blades and the shape of the grapes.

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. It is woolly hairy, greenish with light bronze approach. The bright green young leaves are slightly hairy.
• The large leaves are indented five lobes and deep. 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 Chasselas and is therefore late maturing.

Synonyms

The grape is also known under the Colorino synonyms Abrostine, Abrostino, Abrostolo dolce, Abrusco, Abrustano Nero, Broustina rose colore, Canino, Colorino di Lucca, Colorino di Valdarno, Colorino Pisano, Jomarello, Lambrusco, Raversusto and Tintiglia.