Grapevine Red Muscat - Late Ripening

Red Misket is an old local Bulgarian wine grape variety. It is grown throughout the country. There are commercial plantings of it in the Sungurlare and Prosenik valleys, the Karlovo and Varna regions, where it is also zoned, and on smaller areas in the Stara Zagora, Sliven, Yambol and Vratsa regions.   It is also known by the names Romashtina (Tarnovo region), Tarnova (Shumen region), Blue Violet (Vratsa region), Turkish Rose (Serbia).   A late-ripening wine variety with very good fertility. Its grapes ripen in the second half of September. It develops well and gives good results on skeletal soils on hillsides. Hilly, well-ventilated terrain is suitable for the variety. It has medium growth, good fertility and medium yield. It is prone to poor fruit set. It is sensitive to rot. In frost resistance this variety ranks first among local varieties and surpasses a number of foreign wine varieties. Insufficiently resistant to grey mould.   The bunch is medium-sized, cylindrical-conical, sometimes with one or two wings, moderately compact to compact. The berries are medium-large, spherical, with a pleasant taste and a faint muscat aroma. The skin is medium thick, tough, pink-red, with a slight violet tinge, with a waxy bloom, sprinkled with characteristic dark dots. The flesh is juicy, sweet, with a pleasant muscat aroma.   Red Misket is a variety for producing high-quality white muscat wines, but the grapes are also used for fresh consumption. The grapes accumulate 18 – 21 % sugars, 5.4 – 6 g/cu. dm titratable acidity, which is improved by blending with other varieties. The wines have a straw-yellow colour, a harmonious flavour and a pleasant delicate muscat aroma. Blending with the varieties "Dimyat" and "Italian Riesling" produces the famous dry white Euxinograd wines.