Firstly hi to the group.

Regarding the Italian text on Corvina here's a very rough translation
(I've skipped the pieces I didn't quite understand):

CORVINA VERONESE widely cultivated in the Veronese areas of the
Valpolicella, Valpantena and Bardolino.

Description

Winter bud large, ...

Leaf medium large, pentagonal, 5-lobed, green, little hairy, intense
color.

Medium-small, cylindrical-pyramidal cluster, with obvious, compact
wing, berries medium, eliptical, of blue-black color, medium
consistency, juicy pulp.

Cultural aptitudes: Vine of good vigour, late budburst... growth
generally balanced.

Adapted to various fertile and humid (not excessively) soil types,
also limestone, it prefers however sunny and dry climates for regular
and healthy grape maturity.

Growing and pruning ... preference for canes...

Green pruning allows regulation of fruit maturation.
Really "delicate" cultivar, not adapted to mechanical growing systems.

Production
Average and reasonably consistent.

Grape harvest
Medium-late. Machine harvesting with caution in order not to damage
vines.

Resistance to diseases: moderate, more sensitive to botrytis in
clones with compact cluster.

Wine organoleptic evaluation: gives a wine of red color... with smell
of violets, acidic, elevated tannins, full body, vinous, not lacking
in finesse but somewhat disharmonic.

Vinification of Corvina is (usually) not as a varietal, but blended
with other grapes of Rondinella, Molinara, Rossignola, etc. ending as
a highly regarded wine of Valpolicella, Valpantena, Bardolino, etc.

With late harvest and special winemaking techniques and blending with
other cultivars it produces the Recioto and the Amarone.

Corvina Veronese Rauscedo 6: cluster is medium, semi-compact,
cylindrical-pyramidal, winged; berries medium-small with good and
constant production; it has good resistance to botrytis. Gives a
full-bodied wine with (later maturation?).

Others clones available: ISV-cv7, ISV-cv13, ISV-cv48, ISV-cv78.

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Cheers everyone.
D. Tesic

--- In ampelography@y..., Vanclaybor@a... wrote:
> Thanks Marco. Sadly, I dont understand Italian. It wil take me a
> couple of days to round up someone who does. Does that article say
> anything about winter hardiness?
>
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> > If of any use...
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> > Marco de Donà.
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