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Prunesta is a rare native Italian red wine grape variety. According to Ian D'Agata in Native Wine Grapes of Italy: "It has a midium-sized, very stocky, pyramidal, winged bunch, with large, oval, blue-black berries." It is a component of 10 Calabrian IGT wines, primarily in the Province of Reggio Calabria and the Province of Crotone.
References
- ↑ Galet, Pierre (2000). Dictionnaire encyclopédique des cépages (in French). Hachette Pratique. ISBN 9782012363311.
- 1 2 Gray, W. Blake (21 February 2017). "Tasting the world's rarest wine grape". The Gray Report. Archived from the original on 2021-04-20. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
- ↑ d'Agata, Ian (19 June 2018). "Mountain Magic: The Wines of Valle d'Aosta". Vinous. Archived from the original on 29 October 2019. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
- ↑ Vouillamoz, José F.; Schneider, Anna; Grando, M. Stella (August 2007). "Microsatellite analysis of Alpine grape cultivars (Vitis vinifera L.): alleged descendants of Pliny the Elder's Raetica are genetically related" (PDF). Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. 54 (5): 1095–1104. doi:10.1007/s10722-006-9001-z. S2CID 3126298. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-04-30. Retrieved 2019-01-28.
- ↑ Vouillamoz, José F; Moriondo, Giulio (2012). Origine des cépages valaisans et valdôtains (in French). Fleurier: Éditions du Belvédère. p. 224. ISBN 978-2-884-19216-3. OCLC 794527653.
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