🍇 Piccola Nera
Pink-skinned wine grape from Italy; parents Heunisch Weiss × Vulpea; 20 synonyms in VIVC.
Piccola Nera is a pink-skinned wine grape from Italy.
According to DNA markers recorded in VIVC, its parents are Heunisch Weiss and Vulpea.
Italy's National Register of Grapevine Varieties lists it under code 187, admitted on 25 May 1970. The register lists the variety as permitted in 2 IGT wines, among them Trevenezie and Venezia Giulia.
According to VIVC, it covered 20 ha in Italy (2000). Samples of the variety are kept in 4 collections. The variety is registered in the European catalogue of varieties.
Why it matters to you. VIVC lists 20 synonyms for it, among them Blaue Zdnuczaytraube, Cerni Klescec and Drobna Cernina, so the same grape can turn up under other names. If a grape is named on the label of an EU wine, it makes up at least 85% of that wine.
How it connects to Wine
🍇 Piccola Nera → kind of → 🍇 Grape varieties → kind of → 🍷 Wine
Links
- Part of
- 🍇 Grape varieties
- Origin
- 🗺️ Italian wine
- Parents
- 🍇 Gouais Blanc, 🍇 Vulpea
Frequently asked questions
Where does Piccola Nera come from?
According to VIVC, from Italy.
What are the parents of Piccola Nera?
According to DNA markers recorded in VIVC, its parents are Heunisch Weiss and Vulpea.
Under what other names is Piccola Nera known?
VIVC lists 20 synonyms for it, among them Blaue Zdnuczaytraube, Cerni Klescec and Drobna Cernina, so the same grape can turn up under other names.
What to read next
- 🗺️ Italian wine — The country's wine and winemaking: regions, grape varieties, appellations.
- 🍇 Gouais Blanc — An old white wine grape, known in Germany as Heunisch; an ancestor of Chardonnay, Riesling and Gamay.
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Sources
- VIVC (Vitis International Variety Catalogue): passport Piccola Nera
- VIVC: area statistics PICCOLA NERA
- Registro Nazionale delle Varietà di Vite (MASAF/CREA): Piccola Nera N., codice 187
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 (grape varieties on labels)