The Best Tool to Learn about Italian Wine

Italy's Native Wine Grapes Guide

Maturano

Grape's Data Sheet

The Maturano Wine Grape in Italy

Maturano - The Grape and the Wines

The Maturano grape variety is an ancient indigenous variety from Lazio, originating in the Val di Comino, recently rediscovered and registered in the National Register of Wine Grape Varieties in 2010, along with the Capolongo b., Lecinaro n., Pampanaro b., and Rosciola rs. varieties. These grape varieties were recovered thanks to a project by Arsial (Regional Agency for the Development and Innovation of Agriculture in Lazio), aimed at identifying the most qualified clones of varieties already registered in the Regional Register of Wine Grape Varieties, to highlight their distinctive elements and allow their development in the region. Little is known about this grape variety, and very few producers currently offer it. Maturano is a moderately vigorous variety, with medium-sized, loose clusters, often with one or two wings. The berry is spheroidal, bluish-black, and covered with abundant pruina.

From the Maturano grape, a wine is obtained with a straw-yellow color with golden reflections and an intense and complex nose, with fruity aromas that prominently feature notes of pineapple, papaya, peach, banana, and yellow apple. On the palate, the wine made from the Maturano grape variety reveals fullness, balance, acidic structure, and pleasant sapidity, along with good persistence and hints of tropical fruit, with herbaceous notes on a mineral background.

maturano a native wine grape of Italy

Maturano - General Info Table

Maturano is one of the  Native Grapes with White berry widespread mainly in Latium, officially listed in the “Catalogo nazionale varietà di vite” since 2009. Its surface under vines in Italy is 10 ha.
Berry colorWhite berry
Grape CategoryNative Grapes
Main RegionLatium
Surface under Vines in Italy10 ha
Year of listing2009

Maturano - Ampelographic Data

Each grape variety is characterized by Ampelographic Descriptors that define the appearance of its main elements. The ampelographic features of the Maturano grape variety are:
Leaf Features
The leaf of the Maturano grape variety is medium-sized, pentagonal, with five lobes.
Bunch Features
The bunch of the Maturano grape variety is dense, medium-sized, cone-shaped.
Berry Features
The berries of the Maturano grape variety are medium-sized, of ellipsoidal shape and with Buccia pruinosa, firm and yellow-greenish colored skin.

Maturano - Wine Features

The Varietal Wine obtained from each and every Grape Variety, features precisely defined organoleptic characteristics. Referred to Maturano grapes, they are as follows:
Varietal Wine's features
The wine obtained from Maturano grapes is .

Maturano - Agricultural & Productive Features

Each and every grape variety features very specific agricultural and productive characteristics, such as productivity, yield, ripening time, the ideal type of climate or pruning system, sensitivity to adversities, varying degrees of disease resistance and many others. For the Maturano grape variety, the main characteristics are:
Ripening timemedium
Vegetative vigormedium vigor