Ribolla Gialla

Ribolla Gialla is an ancient indigenous white grape from Friuli- Venezia Giulia and Slovenia, the small family of Ribolla - vines counts. Characters for the cultivation date back to 1300, but since the Roman times they should have known under the name of Evola. The variety was very popular and widely disseminated to the 19th century, but after the phylloxera disaster the stock fell sharply. Recommended is their cultivation in the Italian provinces of Gorizia, Pordenone and Udine. In the 1990s, the area under vines was 78 hectares.

The variety is almost exclusively in the hilly border region between Italy and Slovenia - grown - by Tarcento on the Karst up to Istria. In the plane she never used because the fertile soils are not suitable for the cultivation of orchards with vigorous growth variety.

There is also a Ribolla verde, but which is rarely grown because of the poor quality of the wine.

See also the article viticulture in Italy, in Greece, viticulture, viniculture and viticulture in Slovenia in Croatia and the list of grape varieties.

Ampelographic varietal characteristics

In the ampelography the habit is described as follows:

• The shoot tip is open. She is hairy yellowish-white and woolly. The bright green young leaves are slightly hairy and with slightly bronze approach.
• The medium-sized leaves are not sinuate or sinuate -lobed and weak. The petiole is open. The blade is serrated blunt. The teeth are medium in size compared to the varieties.
• The cylindrical to conical grape is shouldered, small to medium size and moderately dichtbeerig. The rounded ( sometimes slightly elongated ) berries are medium in size and yellow in color. The aroma of the berry is fairly neutral and slightly astringent.

The grape ripens about 30 days after Chasselas and is therefore late maturing even for northern Italian standards.

Synonyms

The grape Ribolla Gialla is also under the name Avola, Gargania, Garganja, Jarbola, Pignolo, Rabiola, Rabola, Rabolla, Rabolla Dzhalla di Rozatsio, Rabuele, Raibola, Rebolla, Reboula jaune, REBULA ( in Slovenia), rebula Bela, rebula rumena, rebula zuta, Ribola, Ribola Djiala, Ribolla Ribolla Bianca, Ribolla Dzhalla, Ribolla Gialla, Ribolla Gialla di Rosazz, Ribolla Gialla di Rosazzo, Ribollat ​​, Ribuela, Ribuele, Ribuele Zale, Ribula Zuta, Ribuole and Robolla known.