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Red grapes

Moreto

	Ampelographic Characteristics Fonte: Catálogo das Castas, IVV.
	Grape characteristics
Name	Moreto
Type of grape variety	Red
Description	Moreto is characteristic from Alentejo and is much cultivated in Reguengos, Redondo and Granja-Amareleja. It is believed that it may have been brought to the region around the 19th Century, time by which there was a great development in Alentejo’s viticulture. This grape variety has small bunches and medium-sized, round berries. It is very productive and late-ripening. Wines produced with Moreto are usually not full bodied and have little colour. This explains why this grape variety is used in blend wines, being usually blended with Trincadeira, Aragonez and Tinta Caiada.

Young Branch End	open flat; white and slightly carmine on the borders; cottony.
Young leaf	whitish L1 and L2 with slightly carmine borders, yellow L3 with coppery spots, green L4 and L5 with coppery spots, green L6. Cottony L4 with webbed main nervures.
Flower	androgynous.
Shoots	green internodes and nodes; low anthocyanin pigmentation on the shoots; erect to semi erect growth.
Tendrils	intermittent regular distribution, 02 formula, medium length.
Adult leaf	medium length, pentagonal, with five lobes. Open upper lateral sinuses with U-shaped bases; open petiolar sinus with a U-shaped base. Dark green leaf blade, low swelling and generalized undulation, null anthocyanin pigmentation on the nervures. Cottony underside with medium, erect pilosity and webbed main nervures. Convex, short to medium-sized teeth, larger in length than in width. Petiole shorter than the average main vein and glabrous.
Bunch	short, closed. Peduncle of medium length with low lignification.
Berry	small, round, dark blue in colour, strongly bloom. Thick skin. Colourless, rigid pulp with a simple flavour. Short pedicel, adherent.
Seeds	strong hard tegument.
Stalks	circular section, striated surface. Reddish brown in colour, glabrous.