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Grape Variety: Fiano

Variety Name Fiano
TTB Approved Name(s) Fiano
All Synonyms Apiana, Apiano, Fiore Mendillo, Latino bianca, Minutola, SantaSofia
Countries of Origin Italy
Species Vitis vinifera
References
Berry Color White
Uses Wine
Comments 6- Fiano was used by the Romans to make a wine called Apianum in the hills above Avellino

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Fiano Selections

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  Fiano 01
Registration Status Registered Registered is the ultimate status in the California Department of Food & Agricultures Grapevine Registration & Certification Program. Registered selections have successfully completed all disease testing required by the regulations. Registered selections have also been confirmed as true to variety by experts using visual observations, DNA-based testing or both.
Protocol 2010 Qualifies for Protocol 2010.
Source Mendocino County, California
Treatments Microshoot tip tissue culture therapy
Comments This selection was donated to the Foundation Plant Services public collection in 1998 from the University of California, Hopland Research & Extension Center in Mendocino County, California. The original plant material underwent microshoot tip tissue culture disease elimination therapy at FPS in 1999. After successful completion of testing for the California Grapevine Registration & Certification Program, Fiano 01 was planted in the FPS Classic Foundation Vineyard in 2003.

  Fiano 01.2
Registration Status Registered Registered is the ultimate status in the California Department of Food & Agricultures Grapevine Registration & Certification Program. Registered selections have successfully completed all disease testing required by the regulations. Registered selections have also been confirmed as true to variety by experts using visual observations, DNA-based testing or both.
Protocol 2010 Qualifies for Protocol 2010.
Source Mendocina County, California
Treatments Microshoot tip tissue culture therapy
Comments This selection was donated to the Foundation Plant Services public collection in 1998 from the University of California, Hopland Research & Extension Center in Mendocino County, California. The original plant material underwent microshoot tip tissue culture disease elimination therapy at FPS in 1999. After successful completion of testing for the California Grapevine Registration & Certification Program, Fiano 01.2 was planted in the FPS Classic Foundation Vineyard in 2003.

  Fiano 02
Registration Status Registered Registered is the ultimate status in the California Department of Food & Agricultures Grapevine Registration & Certification Program. Registered selections have successfully completed all disease testing required by the regulations. Registered selections have also been confirmed as true to variety by experts using visual observations, DNA-based testing or both.
Source Atripalda, Campania region, Italy
Treatments Microshoot tip tissue culture therapy
Comments This selection was donated to the Foundation Plant Services public collection in 2000 by Carlo Mastroberardino, Mastroberardino Winery, in Atripalda of the Campania region of Italy. It came with the name Fiano di Avellino. The original plant material was subjected to microshoot tip tissue culture disease elimination therapy at FPS in 2001. After successful completion of testing for the California Grapevine Registration & Certification Program, Fiano 02 was planted in the FPS Classic Foundation Vineyard in 2006.

  Fiano 03 (proprietary)
Registration Status Registered Registered is the ultimate status in the California Department of Food & Agricultures Grapevine Registration & Certification Program. Registered selections have successfully completed all disease testing required by the regulations. Registered selections have also been confirmed as true to variety by experts using visual observations, DNA-based testing or both.
Source Italy
Treatments Microshoot tip tissue culture therapy
Proprietary Proprietary- cannot be distributed without written permission from owner.
Patented / Proprietary Proprietary
Comments This selection (VCR clone 3) came to Foundation Plant Services in 2000 from Vivai Cooperativi Rauscedo, Italy. A VCR nursery clone description designates Avellino, Italy (in the province of Campania) as the source of clone VCR 3. The selection underwent microshoot tip tissue culture therapy at FPS in 2001 and was planted in the Classic Foundation Vineyard in 2007. Fiano 03 is distributed by Novavine Grapevine Nursery.