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Red grapes

Trajadura

	Ampelographic Characteristics Fonte: Catálogo das Castas, IVV.
	Grape characteristics
Name	Trajadura
Type of grape variety	White
Description	Trajadura is originally from the Vinhos Verdes region, particularly the sub-region of Monção, though it has expression in Galicia (Spain). It quickly spread to other sub-regions, being grown in almost the entire region of Vinhos Verdes. This grape variety has good production. Its bunches are medium-sized, very compact and made up of big yellowish green berries. Wines produced with this grape variety don’t have intense aromas and are usually a little unbalanced. Trajadura is usually blended with Loureiro or, sometimes, with Alvarinho (grape varieties from the same region and more aromatic), in order to endow the wines with a higher alcohol content and better balance.

Budding	open, cottony, white and with the margins slightly carmine.
Young leaf	yellow with bronze and/or brass spots; pubescent on the down side of the blade.
Flower	androgynous.
Shoots	internodes with red striations and green nodes on the back side, and green on the frontal side; green buds; erect to half-erect growth.
Tendrils	discontinuous, short, webbed and very separate.
Adult leaf	medium size, orbicular, entire to three lobes, medium green, shiny, flat and slightly bubbly; medium to long teeth, convex margins; open petiolar sinus with a U shaped base and open upper lateral sinus with a V shaped base; carmine petiolar point as well as the beginning of the main veins, more pronounced on the upper side; pubescent and slightly bristly on the down side; glabrous petiole, shorter than the medium main vein.
Bunch	medium size; cylindrical-conic and winged; very compact; short peduncle and medium lignification.
Berry	medium to big, uniform; elliptic-short to obovoid due to the berries compression; yellow green colour; with bloom, thin skin and apparent hilum; firm, little juicy pulp with a special flavour; short pedicel of difficult separation.
Seeds	hard tegument, predominantly one per berry; medium size, very round, short and well pronounced beak.
Stalks	elliptic cross-section, striated surface; brown reddish colour, vigorous, fusiform and straight; short internodes and large nodes; medium long, sharp and prominent buds.