Aligote
Aligote - is a French winy sort of folk selection vine. It belongs to the eco-geographical group of West-European types of vine. The bark of young vine is chlorine with a carmine-red tint. The first young leaves have a thick felt indumentum on both sides, and all subsequent leaves have cobweb indumentum.
One-year ripening vine is russet, on nodes with a dove-colored-violet tint. Vine's flower is teleianthous. The bunch is of middle size (length is 11-15cm and width is 8-10 cm), cylinder-conical and cylindrical form, often winged, dense, sometimes with the deformed berries.
The bunch's stalk is short - up to 4 cm. Middle bunch's mass is 103 g. Middle round berry (diameter 12-15 mm). Middle mass of 100 berries is 180 gram. Coloring is rather yellow-green with the umber points. A peel is thin, comparatively durable. Pulp is very juicy and delicate. Taste is ordinary and pleasant. The berry contains 1-2 seeds.
The leading characters of Aligote vine sort are: compound, shine, rifle-green leaves with recurvated downward edges; petioles, ribs and sprouts are painted in dark-wine-red color; petiole hollow is triangle; dense, almost cylindrical, bunches with small rather yellow- green berries and spots of sunburn.
The axis of vines and petioles of leaves is wine-red.The autumn coloring of leaves is lemon. Aligote belongs to the group of comparatively winter-proof sorts of vine, but it carries frosts worse, than Rkaciteli and Risling.
Aligote – is one of main Ukrainian sorts of vine for the production of high-quality juices, table wines and wine materials. Table wines are prepared from this type of vine. It is better to drink young wine. The vintage ability is low.
<<< back
