Grapevine Bolgar - White Dessert Grape, Mid-Season Ripening

Bolgar is a white table grape variety and is considered the most valuable table grape in Bulgaria. Bolgar is mainly used for fresh consumption. It originates from Asia Minor. Widely grown in Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Italy, Spain and Australia.    It is also known by the names: Karaburnu, Afuz Ali, Datier de Beyrouth, Bolgar, Aleppo, Rosaki, Rosakia, Rosetti, Regina and others.    The vines on which BOLGAR grows give the best harvest when grown on deep, fresh, humus-carbonate chernozems on a loess base, cinnamon forest soils and alluvial soils.    They suffer from fungal diseases and pests and are not resistant to low winter temperatures. In unfavourable weather conditions during flowering, shot berries (millerandage) and cleistogamy appear.    It is distinguished by large to very large, conical, winged, moderately compact to loose bunches. The berries of this grape variety are very large, elongated-cylindrical, sometimes egg-shaped, crunchy, with a harmonious flavour. The skin is thick and firm but not tough, amber-yellow, sometimes with rusty patches on the side exposed to the sun.    With growing-season irrigation, the yield of the Bolgar variety increases by 24 - 200 percent.