🍇 Corvinone

Corvinone Veronese is a black-berried wine grape variety of Italy. VIVC lists it as Vitis vinifera subsp. sativa, with Italy as the country of origin, wine use and hermaphrodite flowers; parents, breeder and year of origin are not recorded, and no taste, chlorotype or resistance data are given. VIVC gives six synonyms: Corvina Grossa, Corvino, Corvinon, Corvinone, Corvinone a foglia glabra and Cruinon. SSR marker data exist for the variety, it is registered in the European Catalogue and two collections hold it.

Corvinone is named in the production rules of several denominations of Valpolicella, in the province of Verona. The consolidated rules approved by ministerial decree of 2 August 2019 (Gazzetta Ufficiale no. 190 of 14 August 2019) require the vineyards for Valpolicella DOC, Valpolicella Ripasso DOC, Recioto della Valpolicella DOCG and Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG to hold Corvina Veronese (Cruina or Corvina) and/or Corvinone at 45 to 95 percent, together with Rondinella at 5 to 30 percent. So Corvinone may stand in for Corvina within the first share. The rules list the two names separately, side by side, as two varieties.