Plavac Mali is a red grape originally from Croatia now found in the Apulia region of southern Italy. Its wines are rich and tannic with plenty of alcohol. They taste and smell of blackberries and pepper.
Plavac Mali
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Plavac Mali is the primary red wine grape grown along the Dalmatian coast. The name refers to the small blue berries that the vines produce.
(The Croatian grape, Plavac Mali is the nearest local relation still in production.) Zinfandel needs to be properly ripe to show off its slightly peppery full and fruity character.
Working with two Croatian scientists, she also examined the DNA of two other Croatian varieties, Dobricic and Plavac Mali. They determined that Plavac Mali is a result of a genetic cross between Dobricic and Zinfandel.
Despite today Primitivo is considered one of the many autochthonous grapes of Apulia, it is believed this varieties is genetically similar to Plavac Mali, a grape from Dalmatia and which is also known in California as Zinfandel.
The widely grown Plavac Mali cépage, also known as Mali Plavac, variety found in Dalmatia - (a province of Croatia, also part of the former Yugoslavia) - contains several mutated varieties.
There is yet another clonal contender, the widely grown Plavac Mali grape found in Dalmatia, a province of Croatia, also part of the former Yugoslavia. The evidence for this latter match is, however, somewhat suspect.
a Plavac Mali), cépage varieties which are mainly grown in the coastal area known as Dalmatia, a province of Croatia recently a part of the former Yugoslavia and located just across the Adriatic sea from the shores of Italian Apulia.
the 1820s when Long Island nursery owner George Gibbs imported several grape vines from the Imperial collection in Vienna. One of the vines was Zinfandel. (The current thinking is that Zinfandel originated in Croatia where it is called Plavac Mali.) ...
DOBRICIC: Variety indigenous to Croatia (former province of Yugoslavia). Recent DNA analysis (late 2001) has found that it is one of the parents of Plavac Mali. No other details as yet.
According to a recent report this grape may also be identical to the Vranac grape found in Montenegro, the state that, combined with Serbia, constitutes what remains of the former Yugoslavia. Another clone contender is the Plavac Mali from the ...
 See also: Zinfandel, Wine, Grape, Red, Alcohol
  
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