VERDELLO: White wine variety grown in central Italy. Known to be an ingredient in the best Orvieto Classico wine blends of Umbria. Has synonym name of Breval. May be a clone of the Spanish Verdelho variety, imported around the 15th century.
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Verdelho is a white grape grown throughout Portugal, though most associated with the island of Madeira, and gives its name to one of the four main types of Madeira wine.
Among the white berried grapes there is Grechetto - the Umbrian autochthonous spread all over the region - Trebbiano Toscano, Malvasia del Chianti, Verdello and Verdicchio.
Verdello and Greco Bianco, to create the dry white (bianco) wine associated with the name of the DOC. Recommended for drinking as young wines but capable of gaining style from two-three years cellaring.
In fact, authorities on the island of Madeira had to implement a plan to revive it there, beginning in the 1970s. A grape known as Verdello, planted in Italy's Umbria region, may well be the same variety, although this is yet unproven.
Grechetto is commonly blended with Chardonnay, Malvasia, Trebbiano and Verdello. The grape's thick skin provides good resistance to downy mildew which can attack the grape late in the harvest season.
Verdelho has had success as a varietal wine in Australia where it retains freshness in the heat, and is probably the same variety as the Verdello of Spain and Italy.
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