Muscat Rose à Petits Grains
Pink Moscato or Moscato Rosa is a non-indigenous red grape variety from the Italian province of Trentino, originally imported from Sicily. It is a mutation with reddish berries of white grape Moscato Bianco. In Italy, its cultivation in the provinces of Bolzano and Trento is authorized as DOC ( Denominazione di origine controllata ). Admitted she is also in the provinces of Gorizia, Pordenone and Udine. The rare grape variety is grown to a small extent in Italy ( about 58 acres, at 1998 ), in the wine region of Alsace (approx. 30 acres ) and Burgenland in Austria (about 15 acres ). In Germany, the cultivation is currently approved only in the trial cultivation.
The South Tyrolean Moscato Rosa are mostly edelsüß expanded and are very flowery in their youth. However, the wine can be quite 4 - Store six years and developed something more elegance. During storage, however, the wine loses its Duftigkeit.
Small stocks are known in Istria, Australia and Portugal.
See also the article viticulture in Italy, wine growing in France, viticulture and winemaking in Australia in Portugal 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 easy woolly haired with light reddish - bronze approach. The bronze-colored young leaves are slightly hairy and shiny.
- The medium-sized, thick leaves are round (usually longer than wide), five-lobed and distinctly sinuate. The petiole is V-shaped open. The sheet is cut sharply. The teeth are medium in size compared to the varieties. The leaf surface (also called lamina ) is slightly blistered.
- The drum-shaped grape is hardly shouldered, tall, long and medium dichtbeerig. The roundish to slightly elongated berries are medium in size and of a pink color. The shell of the berry is thick. The aroma of juicy berry is fine and has an aromatic bouquet with a distinctive muscat flavor.
The Moscato Rosa is growing quite sophisticated, the grapes must ripen on the vine for a long time, but are also very sensitive to rot. In the case of infection with the transmitted by nematodes fanleaf disease of crop failure is stronger when compared with other varieties on the average.
Synonyms: Rosenmuskateller, Muscat à petits grains rose, Red Frontignac, Moscatel roxo