I mentioned in the last blog on Albillo that I had tasted a Crimean Albillo in one of the Massandra wines and now I found the bottle and took this picture to illustrate the entry. Readers of this blog will probably know that I have made a hobby of trying out different exotic grapes and recording this for the next level of membership in the Wine Century Club. It was during a checking session that I found I had recorded Albillo before, and that was with the Crimea Madeira I tasted at the end of last year. I Googled to see if the two grapes are related and it seems that the Massandra wines included something called Crimean Albillo. The German VIVC database did not have a grape exactly called that but it did have Albillo de Crimee, which I take to be the grape used by Massandra. The Prime Name is actually Albillo Krimskii, though that database listed its origin as also in Spain. Seems that I may have two different Albillos in the two bottles in the picture above.
It seems that 'Albillo Crimean' is the same as 'Rachuli Tetra' which is listed in 'Wine Grapes' as 'Tsulukidzis Tetra'.
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