Marzemino

Marzemino is an ancient red grape variety that probably comes from Italy. She is already in the 15th century in the Adige Valley ( south of Trento Vallagarina called for German Vallagarina ) detected in the northern Italian Trentino. Is also frequently claimed that the grape come from a Carinthian village called Marzemin. Such a village but there is no. In the 1990s, an area under vines of 863 acres was raised in Italy. Lorenzo Da Ponte and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) ". ! Versa il vino marzimino Eccellente" have with the opera Don Giovanni Marzemino wine with the exclamation a monument.

Previously Marzemino was part of the recipe of Chianti. Today it is still cultivated in small quantities in the regions of Trentino -Alto Adige, Emilia -Romagna, Lombardy and Veneto. Marzemino For example, in the DOC wines - wines used Breganze, Capriano del Colle, Cellatica, Colli di Conegliano, Garda and Trentino.

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

In 2004, the " Istituto di San Michele all'Adige agrario " a close genetic relationship of the first degree with the varieties Lagrein and Teroldego as well as the variety Dureza confirmed today Fondazione Edmund Mach in Conegliano a connection to the French Syrah.

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

In the ampelography the habit is described as follows:

  • The shoot tip is open. It is woolly hairy, whitish with slightly bronze approach. The greenish-yellow young leaves are hairy on the upper side weak and woolly on the underside of leaves.
  • The medium-sized leaves are three-to five-lobed and barely sinuate. The petiole is V-shaped closed since overlap the petiole ends. The sheet is cut sharply. The teeth are set closely compared the vine. The upper leaf surface ( also called leaf blade ) is bubbly.
  • The cone - shaped to cylindrical cluster is large and dichtbeerig. The roundish berries are medium sized and red - violet color. The shell of the vine is hard and the berry is juicy.

The grape ripens about 35 days after Chasselas and is thus regarded as late maturing. Compared to the powdery mildew and downy mildew, it is susceptible.

It provides fruity and slightly bitter wine with garnet red to dark red color with a plum and cherry bouquet.

Synonyms: Balsamina Nera, Barzemin, Bassamino, Berzemino Calopico, Bossamino, Magnacan, Marsemina, Marzamino, Marzemin, Marzemino d' Isera, Marzemino gentile, Marzemino Padovano, Merzemina, Uva Tedesco

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