Raboso (grape)

Raboso was in the past the most cultivated grape variety of eastern Veneto; Venetian navigators called it vin de viajo, "wine of travel", because it was the most resistant to aging and transport.

The vine ripens relatively quite late, producing good yields with high resistance to fungal disease and rot.

Optimal vinification requires appropriate maceration of juice and skins: this results in a full-bodied wine, acidic and tannic when young, ideal for laying down.

Left to age in wooden barrels, it will gradually acquire a deep ruby colour with garnet tinges, a broad and full bouquet of wild violets with a concentrated note of morello cherry; the palate is dry, astringent.

During a series of trials between 1930 and 1935, Raboso Piave was crossed with Black Muscat to create the red wine grape variety Manzoni Moscato.