Colour
Black
Wine Style
Medium Ruby, red cherry/red plum/herbal, medium to full bodied, high acidity, high tannins. Acceptable to outstanding. Inexpensive to premium, some super-premium priced.
Budding
Early –> spring frost
Ripening
Late –> early autumn rain
Soil
Friable shale and limestone, reasonably successful on clay
Canopy management
Vigorous –> trimming regularly –> avoid shade
Skin
Thin –> botrytis bunch rot
Hazards
Esca, wild boars