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Avesso  
  Grape characteristics
Name Avesso
Type of grape variety White
Description Avesso is grown in the Vinhos Verdes region. However, it is mainly planted near the Douro region, in the sub-regions of Baião, Resende and Cinfães, where it finds the ideal conditions for its development, since these soils are drier and less fertile than those of the other areas of Vinhos Verdes. Avesso’s bunches are medium-sized, with big, yellowish green berries. Wines produced with this grape variety are aromatic and very harmonious and tasty. Avesso’s qualities are much appreciated when the ripening conditions allow the production of wines containing at least 11% of alcohol.
   
  Ampelographic Characteristics
Fonte: Catálogo das Castas, IVV.
 
Budding open, pubescent light green and, in general, strongly carmine.
Young leaf browny yellow, with a strong average intensity anthocyanin pigmentation of the six first leaves; shiny upper side of the blade and carmine main veins; webbed down side of the blade.
Flower androgynous.
Shoots red internodes and nodes on the back side and green on the front side; strong anthocyanin pigmentation of the buds, erect or half-erect growth.
Tendrils descontinuous, medium length, webbed and straight.
Adult leaf medium size, wedgeshaped, with five lobes, medium to light green and shiny, irregular outline, slightly bubbly to smooth; long teeth even taken with the bases'width, convex sides, sometimes with one convex and one concavous side; very open petiolar sinus with an U shaped base, wide, and frequently with one tooth over the margin, open upper lateral sinus V shaped; slightly carmine main veins on the upper side; glabrous on the down side; glabrous petiole and shorter than the medium main vein.
Bunch medium size; conic, sometimes winged; medium compactness; medium length peduncle and insignificant lignification.
Berry medium size and uniform; elliptic-short, sometimes obovoid due to the berries compression; yellow green colour; with bloom, medium thick skin and little apparent hilum; soft and juicy pulp with a special flavour; medium long pedicel of difficult separation.
Seeds hard tegument, predominantly two per berry; big, round, short and little pronounced beak.
Stalks elliptic to circular cross-section, striated surface, yellow brownish colour; vigorous; medium long internodes and large nodes; big, cup-shaped buds, with a wide and prominent base.

 
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