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Verduno Pelaverga. It is not to be mistaken with Pagno Pelaverga, which is called Cari in Chierese, or with Canavesano Peilavert.

Geographic distribution

It is cultivated in a delimited area of Albese, near Verduno (in the province of Cuneo)

Morphological characters

Bud: greenish white, with slightly rosy edges, cottoned apex. Greenish white, with slightly rosy edges, inferiorly cottoned, apex leaves (1-3). Yellowish light green, with slight copper shades, superiorly lucid, inferiorly very much lanuginose, basal leaves (4-5). Its tendrils are long and robust. 
Adult leaf: medium-large, between cuneiform and pentagonal, five-lobed, or more often tri-lobed (with large superior wombs, and slightly pronounced inferior ones); generally open, U- or U+V-shaped central womb; lyre- or U-shaped superior lateral wombs, often with a tooth; V-shaped inferior lateral wombs. Its border is dark green, with a slightly rosy main nervation base; its surface is slightly bubbly, its profile is plan, sometimes its nervation base is bristly; inferiorly it is slightly lanuginose. Its teeth are medially pronounced, with rectilinear margins. 
Ripened grape: medium-large, conic or pyramidal, winged (often with a long-peduncled wing); its peduncle is long, lignified in its first part, of a green colour, which is rosy-shaded. 
Acinus: medium or medium-large (2,5 g), between spherical and short ellipsoidal, with a very much pruinose violet-blue peel.

Phenology 

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

Cultural attitudes and utilization

Vigour: high; its inter-nodes are long. 
Fertility and production: medium-high and rather constant productivity; scarce as far as femminelle. 
Plant-culture and pruning: it is cultivated by counter-espalier and Guyot pruning, generally with only one capo fruiting per understock. 
Multiplication behaviour: it is good with the most common grafts, such as Kober 5BB and 420A. 
Susceptibility to adversities and phytopathy: due to its late germination, it avoids late hoarfrosts and cold returns; for grapes to ripen and become adequately coloured, it has to be grafted on very well-exposed to the sun and dry grounds. 
Oenological attitudes: Pelaverga grapes give a characteristic wine, of a ruby red colour, sometimes with violet reflections and odours of fruit and spices, of medium corpus, to be drunk young or after a moderate ageing.

Homologated clones: 

noone.

DOC Langa wines which are produced from this vine:

Pelaverga Verduno wine

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