By the name of the vine Uva di Troia (Trojan grapen) we assume that its origin is in Asia Minor, where in fact was located the city of Troy. However, Troy (a small village in the province of Foggia) was most likely founded by Greek colonists from Asia Minor. Other hypotheses recall its Albanian origin from the city of Cruja.
The Uva di Troia is a vine grown abundantly along the coast of the Puglia region, in the Barletta area and in the province of Bari. There are at least two different biotypes: one with a larger cluster and the other with a smaller cluster. The latter is known locally as “Carmosina” and it is one that has the most promising wine characteristics.
The berry is black, medium, spheroid with skin covered with bloom, thick and substantial, almost leathery, violet. The bunch is large, pyramidal, simple or winged, medium compact with a medium, pentagonal, five-lobed leaf.
The vine Uva di Troia adapts easily to all forms of training and pruning, and has no special requirements of land. This grape has good vigor, medium ripening time and medium productivity.
The grape Uva di Troia gives a ruby red wine with violet hues, winy and pleasant to the nose, with notes of flowers and licorice. In the mouth the taste is dry, tannic, fresh for acidity and with good body and structure, also alcoholic.
This grape Uva Longanesi is native of Boncellino (Bagnacavallo, in the province of Ravenna), where the mother plant was discovered by the Longanesi family (known as Bùrson) on their farm. They still produce wine made of this grape.
The vine was found climbing around an oak tree, and initially it was thought it was a biotype of Negretto. Uva Longanesi, the Longanesi’s grape was officially recognized within the National Register of Grapevine Varieties in 2000, and its cultivation has since then expanded rapidly in the provinces of Ravenna, Forlì-Cesena and Bologna.
Uva Longanesi has a black colored berry, medium-large, spherical with blue-black colored skin. Its cluster is cylindrical-conical, elongated, winged, medium compact or loose with medium leaf, pentagonal, five-lobed leaves.
The grape Uva Longanesi gives a ruby red wine with violet hues. The scent is fruity with notes of red berries and the taste is slightly bitter, fresh, tannic and well-structured.
The Verdea is a white grape variety spread in Lombardy but likely with Tuscan origin. It is supposed that the Verdea name derives from the Latin “viridis verde”, meaning green, for the color of the grapes or wine in some greenish reflections.
Dalmasso in 1937 reported a note from the 14th century novelist Francis Sacchetti who spoke of a grape Sancolombana that was supposedly the Verdea. It is also said that it was the Irish man, St. Columban that brought it to Milan when he arrived to Christianize this land devastated by the barbarians, teaching the inhabitants of Colle about grape farming.
The vine has indeed found its wider dissemination in Piacenza and in the Lombard provinces of Milan and Pavia, in particular in the DOC San Colombano area. However, Verdea can still be found in Tuscany (the first mentions date back to the 14th century), where it is known as Colombana. Being ideal for drying it is not uncommon to find it in sweet wines, but also vinified alone.
Verdea has a white berry, medium sized, oval with skin that is slightly covered with bloom, thick, firm, yellowish-green in color. The bunch is medium, conical-pyramidal, short and stocky, with one or two wings, not compact and the leaf is medium, pentagonal, three-lobed or five-lobed.
The vine has Verdea constant and abundant production. The wine made of this grape is pale straw yellow colored with not very intense, neutral flavor.
Verdeca is a white grape variety thought to have its origins in Apulia in southern Italy. The grape is also largely cultivated in the Colli Piacentini area in Emilia-Romagna, Central Italy as well as Apulia and it is mainly used in blends, rarely vinified on its own where it can produce mineral wines.
The Verdeca grape ripens very late and even in warm regions tend to have high acidity and green notes hence it is often used in blend to add these characteristics to grapes lacking them.
The Verdello grape, as in the case of other varieties, is named after the yellow-greenish color of its berries. Its origins are not known and the first certain mention of Verdello is very recent, 1949 at the Convention and Exhibition of Grapes from Perugia. It is grown in Orvieto and in some neighboring areas in Tuscany. It seems to resemble in some respects to the Verdelho grown on the Portuguese island of Madeira.
Its berry is white, medium-small, spherical with a waxy, greenish-yellow skin with brown streaks. The bunch is medium-large, pyramidal, winged and compact with a medium, orbicular leaf.
The Verdello grape is very susceptible to powdery mildew and botrytis and prefers hilly terrain, ventilated, with medium fertility. It is a grape of abundant and regular production.
The wine produced from this grape is straw-colored, intense with fruity notes. Its taste is fresh, medium bodied, with bitter end. Usually, it is never vinified alone, but blended with other varieties of the area.
The Verdese vine has been registered in the National Registry of Grapevine varieties since 1996. It is a white grape variety that takes its name probably from the color of the grapes, greenish.
It is a native variety of Como and Lecce, and is part of the IGT Terre Lariane.
Very few wineries produce wine in the Verdese purity, and it is much easier to find it in blends of the varieties present in the same areas.
Verdicchio Bianco, commonly called Verdicchio, is a white grape variety cultivated mainly in the Marche regions, in the hills between Jesi and Matelica, where it produces the Verdicchio delle Colline di Jesi and the less known Verdicchio di Matelica, and its name comes from the green “verde” color of its berries.
The Verdicchio grape is not only used to make easy to drink, fresh wines but it is also structured and complex wine, able to stand ageing, and sparkling wines, both traditional or classic and Charmat or Martinotti method including dessert wines. In the last decade, Verdicchio has seen a resurgence with more and more independent producers.
Recent studies have confirmed that Verdicchio and Trebbiano di Soave are linked and it has been hypothesised that Verdicchio came from the Trebbiano introduced in the Marche by Veneto merchants.
The Verdiso grape seems to be an authochthonal variety of the Euganean Hills area, but it is no longer possible to find it there. Since the beginning of 18th century it has been present in the area of Conegliano-Valdobbiadene, which in those days was preferred over the other varieties due to its high productivity (albeit at the expense of the quality of musts).
Nowadays it is still present in the area and contributes to both blends with Prosecco (Glera) and with the other varieties. Its important acid component makes it suitable for drying, and it is in fact used in the production of the Colli di Conegliano DOCG Torchiato Fregona.
The Verdiso’s berry is white, medium-large, and ellipsoidal with thin, waxy, greenish-yellow skin. The bunch is medium, pyramidal, vaulted with a wing and with a medium, pentagonal, entire, three-lobed leaf.
The Verdiso grapevine has good vigor and late ripening. Its productivity is abundant and regular.
This grape gives a wine of a straw yellow color. The scent is very intense, fruity. The taste is fresh, with little body, harmonious albeit with weak persistence. It is vinified primarily in blends, especially with Prosecco (Glera) in the Coengliano-Valdobbiadene area.
The Verduzzo Friulano grape is a native grape of Friuli Venezia Giulia, mainly grown in the province of Udine with the name "Verduz". In the Grave and plain areas, the Verduzzo Friulano grape produces a dry and elegant wine, with intense fruity notes, whilst in the Colli Orientali area is mainly used in the production of sweet wines that can stand wood ageing.
The Verduzzo trevigiano grape seems to have been introduced in Veneto from Sardinia at the beginning of the 20th century, though so far we have not been able to connect it to any of the varieties of the island.
It is less famous and less popular than Verduzzo friulano and it is grown mainly in the provinces of Treviso and Venice. The main differences between these two grapes of the same name are in the shape of the leaf and the bunch. This vine is rarely vinified alone.
Verduzzo trevigiano has a white, medium size berry with slightly thin, green skin. Its bunch is medium, cylindrical-pyramidal, winged and medium compact and the leaf medium, orbicular or pentagonal, five-lobed.
The Verduzzo trevigiano has high vigor and gives good and steady production. It gives a straw yellow wine with a pleasant scent, dry and quite alcoholic, fruity and slightly bitter in the mouth.
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