NERO D AVOLA

This variety of vine, is usually called Calabrese,iit is grown almost exclusively in Sicily, a supposition is that the name Calarvisi comes from Calauria, a Greek island, and that it was imported during the Hellenic colonization in Sicily

AMPELOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION:

Adulf leaf: Medium or big (16 – 23 cm)
Bunch: Big and medium size (length 18-27 cm), cylindrical shape, and cylindrical-conical, winged with one or rarely two short wings, frequently with a medium wing. Evident peduncle, woody at the insertion.
Grape: Medium grape (14,6mm) ellipsoid shape, the centre is persistent and prominent; the skin is bloomy, grey bluish colour, thin but hard; the juice is colourless, the pulp is soft, the taste is sugary and a bit tannic; grape seed 2-1 per grape

AGRONOMICS CHARACTERISTICS:

Vigour: Medium.
Pruning: It’s suitable either for the mixed pruning (guyot) or for the short one (shrub or spur pruned cordon). To prefer the spur pruned cordon for the uniformity of the ripening of the grapes.
Soils: It prefers calcareous untied soils and calcareous clayey medium mixed ones.
Climatic and environment conditions: Medium altitude hills, ventilated and if possible situated at east, south-east.
Resistance to vineyard diseases: Very sensible to oidium. It suffers humidity and rain and humidity during the harvest.
Harvest: From the first week of september until the first half of october.