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Furmentìn (in Belbo Valley), Fermentino (in Liguria, Tuscany, and Sardinia), Pigato (in Riviera Ligure di Ponente), Vermentinu or Malvasia (in Corsica) Verlatin, Rolle and Malvasie (in other French areas).

Geographical location

Favorita vine is cultivated in Roero and in the Belbo Valley), but it is also present in some areas near Asti (especially around Canelli) and Alessandria. This vine is also cultivated, with another denomination, in Liguria, Tuscany, Corsica, Sardinia, and in Southern France.

Morphological characters

Bud: greenish white, with carmine-coloured edges, cotton apex. Greenish white, with carmine-coloured edges, inferiorly cottoned, apex leaves (1-3). Green-golden yellow, with slight copper-coloured edges, inferiorly very much lanuginose, basal leaves (4-5). Its herbal shoot has abundant violet-red strips on its dorsal side. 
Adult leaf: big, between pentagonal and orbicular, five- or seven-lobed; lyre-shaped central womb, closed or with slight superimposed borders; lyre-shaped superior lateral wombs, sometimes with a tooth; U- or lyre-shaped inferior lateral wombs. Its border is thick, dark green-coloured with green or rosy nervations at the base, and it has a bubbly surface, slightly wrinkled along its main nervations and with a cup-shaped profile with tormented margins. Its teeth are very much pronounced, with rectilinear margins or, on one side concave, on the other convex. Its inferior page is lanuginose. 
Ripened grape: of medium shape, cylindrical or pyramidal, with one or two developed wings (it is frequent a peduncled wing), medially compact in some environments; its peduncle of medium length, green. 
Acinus: medium-large or large (3,0 g), spherical or short ellipsoidal (d.e./d.l.= 0,96), medially pruinose peel, of greenish yellow colour, which becomes golden or amber yellow, when it is exposed to the sun.

Phenology

Germination: medium or medium-late (second-third decade of April). 
Flowering: medium-precocious (first decade of June). 
Turning to dark colour: medium (second decade of August). 
Grape maturation: medium (end of September-beginning of October).

Cultural attitudes and utilization  

Vigour: high; its buds have an erect carriage. 
Fertility and production: high and constant, abundant also for femminelle. 
Plant-culture and pruning: for Favorita vine it is utilized counter-espalier with Guyot pruning, generally with one capo fruiting 10-12 gems, but frequently with two (or sometimes three) capos fruiting per plant (this system is less suitable); it is also suitable for short pruning. 
Multiplication behaviour: optimum with most grafts. 
Susceptibility to adversities and phytopathy: rather tolerant to oidium, more susceptible to peronospora; grape grey mould or acid rot attacks may occur in some environments; it is particularly susceptible to excoriation. Oenological attitudes: grapes are utilized for dry white wines, fresh and harmonic, provided with personalities, or light and delicate sparkling or champagne-like wines.

Clones:

Favorita CVT 14
Favorita CVT 66
Favorita CVT 105

DOC Langa wines which are obtained from this vine:

Langhe wine

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