The white muscatel with small grains is a white Greek type of vine.

Origin and geographical distribution

The type of vine of tank is of Greek origin. It is cultivated in the majority of the wine countries of the Mediterranean since antiquity.

The most important plantations are known in:

• Italy with a planted surface of 13.500 Hektar. It is classified auxiliary type of vine in DOC. Alto Adige, Asti spumante, Castel San Lorenzo, Colli di Parma, Colli Etruschi Viterbesi, Colli Piacentini, Controguerra, Friuli Isonzo, Golfo del Tigullio, Loazzolo, Molise, Moscadello di Montalcino, Moscato di Cagliari, Moscato di Noto, Moscato di Sardegna, Moscato di Siracusa, Moscato di Sorso-Sennori, Moscato di Trani, Oltrepò Pavese, Piemonte, Sannio, Trentino and Valley of Aoste
• France with a planted surface of 6.933 hectares. In France, the white muscatel is mainly cultivated for the production of the sweet aperitif wines Muscat of Frontignan, Muscat of Lunel, Muscat of Mireval, Muscat of Saint-Jean-of-Minervois and Muscat of Rivesaltes.
• Croatia with a planted surface of 6.000 hectares
• Bulgaria with a planted surface of 5.000 hectares
• Spain with a planted surface of 2.300 hectares
• Greece with a planted surface of 2.300 hectares
• Turkey with a planted surface of 2.000 hectares
• Brazil with a planted surface of 1.780 hectares
• Romania with a planted surface of 1.150 hectares
• Portugal with a planted surface of 1.000 hectares
• South Africa with a planted surface of 590 hectares
• Australia with a surface planted of 590 hectares
• Austria with a planted surface of 150 hectares
• Germany with a planted surface of 80 hectares
• Argentinian with a planted surface of 10 hectares

that is to say a world total of approximately 45.000 hectares.

Characters ampelographic

• End of the young white duveteux branch with dyed with carmine edging.
• Young aranéeuses, brilliant and very bronzed sheets.
• adult Sheets with five lobes with higher deep and very narrow side sines, with a sine pétilaire closed on parallel board, teeth angular, in two series, very narrow, a glabrous limb with the pubescent veins.

Farming aptitudes

This type of vine strips precociously and its maturity is of second time: 2 weeks and half after the Chasselas.

It is a fairly vigorous type of vine. Its débourrement early exposes it to the late frosts. It is very sensitive to the Short-tied, with the Oïdium, the Mildiou, the gray Pourriture, the worms of the bunch and the Guêpe S.

Technological potential

The bunches and the bays are of intermediate size. The bunch is cylindrical, long, narrow and compact. The flesh of bays firm, juicy, is very sweetened. The type of vine has a musky aromatic savor.

Synonyms

The white muscatel with small grains is known under the names of bleated dinka, beli muskat, bily muskatel, white douse, brown muscatel, franczier veros muscatel, frontignac, Gelber Muskateller, Gelber Weihrauch, common Katzendreckler, moscata bianca, moscatel branco, moscatel castellano, moscatel, moscatel of bago muido, moscatel of grano menudo, moscatel of grano pequeno, moscatel C Douro, moscatel fino, moscatel galego, moscatel menudo blanco, moscatel morisco, moscatel nunes, moscatello bianco, moscato bianco common, moscato of Silk, moscato del Colli Euganei, moscato di Canelli, moscato di Montalcino, moscato di Sardegna, moscato di Trani, moscatofilo, moschato, moschato aspro, moschato leuko or moschato lefko, moschato samou, moschoudi, moschoudi proimo, moscovitza, white muscatel, common white muscatel, white muscatel of Were worth, muscatel of Alsace, muscatel of Die, muscatel of Frontignan, muscatel of Lunel, muscatel of Samos, muscatel psilo, muscatel quadrat, muskat beli, muskuti, uva of Cheiro, uva moscatello, Weihrauch, Weiße Muskattraube, Weißer Muskateller, White Frontignan, Zoruna.

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