The Malvasia Nera Lunga grape variety is primarily cultivated in Piedmont, where it is gradually replacing Malvasia di Schierano due to its greater vigor and productivity. In fact, Malvasia di Schierano often appears significantly weakened, also due to diseases (such as viruses and similar), to the extent that it is no longer used in many cases for renewing dead plants. Malvasia Nera Lunga is now the most widespread in the Castelnuovo Don Bosco area, where in some vineyards it represents the entirety of the Malvasia vines. Already in the 19th century, in this same area, there was a black Malvasia variety, which is likely the current Malvasia di Schierano, as well as a Moscato Nero characterized by a rather long cluster. It is likely that this cultivar was later defined as Malvasia Nera Lunga due to the elongated shape of its cluster.

In years of high productivity, the Malvasia Nera Lunga grape variety produces grapes with relatively modest sugar content and acidity. They also have a modest coloring capacity, so wines made from it in purity have medium chromatic intensity (cerasuolo). The olfactory notes are interesting (rose and red fruits like strawberry) but the structure is rather weak. For this reason, Malvasia Nera Lunga grapes are usually not vinified alone but blended with those of Malvasia di Schierano.