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Batoca
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Grape characteristics |
| Name |
Batoca |
| Type of grape variety |
White |
| Description |
Medium quality grape variety authorised in almost the entire Demarcated Region, except for the Monção, Lima and Amarante sub-regions. Very productive, although irregular due to its susceptibility to cryptogamic diseases and rustic, it produces wines with undefined aromas, smooth, but without quality.
Synonymy: also known as «Batoco», «Alvaroco», «Alvarça» and «Alvaroça»; as «Sedouro» or «Sá Douro» in the South of the region, as «Espadeiro Branco» in Lousada and as «Asal Espanhol» or «Pinot Branco» in Amarante; corresponding to the «Alvaraça» of the Douro Region.
SOURCE: Catálogo das Castas da CVRVV.
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Ampelographic Characteristics
Fonte: Catálogo das Castas, IVV.
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| Budding |
open, cottony, white and with the margins slightly carmine.
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| Young leaf |
brass to copper-coloured, medium intensity anthocyanin pigmentation of the first six leaves; bubbly, cottony and clearly bristly on the down side of the blade.
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| Flower |
androgynous.
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| Shoots |
internodes and nodes with red striations on the back side and green on the frontal side; green buds, half-erect to horizontal growth.
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| Tendrils |
discontinuous long webbed and straight.
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| Adult leaf |
big, orbicular, with five to three lobes, irregular outline, light green and slightly bubbly, sometimes fragile; medium length teeth and rectilinear margins, sometimes with one concavous side and the other convex; open and V shaped petiolar sinus and open and V shaped upper lateral sinus; carmine petiolar point as well as the beginning of the main veins in both sides; pubescent and slightly bristly on the down side, glabrous petiole and shorter than the medium main vein.
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| Bunch |
big, large and compact; short peduncle and insignificant lignification.
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| Berry |
big and uniform; elliptic-long, sometimes obovoid due to the berries compression; yellow green colour, with bloom; thick skin and apparent hilum; firm and little juicy pulp with a simple flavour; short pedicel of easy separation.
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| Seeds |
little hard tegument, predominantly two per berry; medium size, pyriform, long, but little pronounced beak.
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| Stalks |
elliptic to circular cross-section, striated surface, yellow brownish colour, vigorous and polygonal in the beginning and then straight; long internodes; medium long, large, cup-shaped buds, with a wide and prominent base.
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