Mavro

Kypreiko is a red grape variety. Grown she is on the Greek islands of Crete, Cyprus and the belonging to the Ionian island of Kythira group. In particular, Cyprus is the variety Mavro (Greek: μαύρο = black ), called and is there along with the variety Xynisteri part of the famous dessert wine Commandaria. Pierre Galet estimated the area under vines in the late 1990s to nearly 10,000 acres. The proportion of the variety Kypreiko on the area under vines of the island of Cyprus was in 2004 with 9,214 acres with nearly 58 percent

The varietal red wine variety is considered very strong.

The grape variety is probably been cultivated for several centuries. The Italian Ampelograph Giuseppe di Rovasenda described it in 1877 in his work Saggio di Ampelografia Universality as Cipro Nero. It was often rumored in France that the grape in the 12th century came in the growing region Sud-Ouest with the Crusaders from Cyprus, where it was called Négrette.

See also the article Viticulture in Greece 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 strongly hairy white wool. The yellowish, slightly bubbly young leaves are hairy slightly woolly on the leaf surface while they are hairy white wool on the bottom
• The wedge-shaped, dark green leaves are five-lobed and deeply sinuate medium ( see also the article sheet form). The petiole open U-shaped. The leaf margin is serrated blunt. Compared to other varieties, the teeth are set moderately dilated. The leaf surface (also called lamina ) is slightly blistered.
• The cone to cone-shaped cluster is very large, long and dichtbeerig. The weight of a grape can be up to 1 kg. The obovoiden berries are large and of a reddish- violet color.

The grape ripens Kypreiko approximately 30 days after Chasselas, making it valid for a vine as late maturing. It is a variety of the noble vine (Vitis vinifera ). She has only female flowers and thus is not itself fruiting. When viticulture formed the economic disadvantage of no return delivered to male plants need to grow.

Synonyms

The grape Kypreiko is also known by the name of Black, nero Cipro, Cipro rosso, Cyperntraube, Cypro nero, Kypreico mavro, Kypreiko mavro, Kypriotiko, Local black, Mavro, Mavron Tis Kyprou and Skuro mavro.