White grape variety
Spitak Areni
Spitak Areni is a white grape variety from Armenia. The getwine.am catalogue lists 1 wine from 1 winery.
- Wines in the catalogue
- 1
- Wineries
- 1
About the variety
Spitak Areni (“white Areni”) is a separate white variety, not a colour mutation of Areni: DNA markers show it to be a cross of Tozot and Areni. VIVC also records it as Spitak Malahi and Artabuynki Spitak. Long considered lost, it was identified again through genetic research, and Maran made the first wine from it, an amber wine macerated for months in karas.
- Berry colour
- white
- Origin
- Armeniaper VIVC passport
- Where it grows — by catalogue wines
- Vayots Dzor1 wine
- Missing
- No data: tannin
What it looks like
Bunch, berries and leaf
Where the data comes from
Sources for this page
Description
Facts from ampelographic sources and the country's official registers, in our own words.
Photos
Openly licensed photographs and photos from winery websites; the source of each frame:
- Bunch on the vine · photo: Ursula Brühl, Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof - 76833 Siebeldingen, GERMANY / VIVC, This photo can be reproduced
- Leaf · photo: Ursula Brühl, Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof - 76833 Siebeldingen, GERMANY / VIVC, This photo can be reproduced
Origin
The variety's passport in the Vitis International Variety Catalogue (VIVC).
Wines
Our catalogue: the grape make-up comes from the winery's site or the label.
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