Duras (grape)

The Duras is a grown exclusively in southwestern France grape for red wine. It is a very old variety. The medium size, round berries are blue-black and have a relatively thick shell. The Duras prefers light sandy or limestone soils, is precocious, but susceptible to powdery mildew. The wines produced from it are round and harmonious wine with a characteristic, peppery fruit.

A broad-based DNA analysis revealed that the Tressot is probably a natural crossing of varieties Duras and Petit Verdot.

Synonyms

The grape Duras is femelle under the name Cabernet Duras, Durade, Duras Duras mâle, Duras rouge, Duraze or Durazé known.

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

In the ampelography the habit is described as follows:

• The shoot tip is open. It is densely hairy white wool, with slightly rötlichfarbenem approach. The yellowish young leaves are slightly hairy and woolly spotted bronze.
• The medium-sized leaves are five-lobed (sometimes even seven or neunlappig ) and deeply sinuate. The petiole is lyrenförmig closed. The sheet is cut sharply. The teeth are set closely compared to other varieties. The leaf surface (also called lamina ) is fine bubbles. In autumn, the leaves discolored partially red.
• The cylindrical to conical grape is large, winged and dichtbeerig. The slightly oval berries are small and nearly black color.

The grape ripens about 15 days after Chasselas and is thus considered still early maturing. It sprouts quite early and therefore miss not always the late frosts of spring. It is susceptible to powdery mildew. Duras 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.