Picolit (also known as Piccolit and Piccolito) is a white Italian wine grape grown in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of northeast Italy. The grape is allowed in the Denominazione di origine controllata e garantita (DOCG) wines of Colli Orientali del Friuli. The grape is most commonly associated with sweet dessert wines often made in the passito style. Historically planted in poor and infertile vineyards, the grape gets its name from the very small stalk, which in friulian language is called pecolèt or pecolùt. The grape had a worldwide reputation in the 18th century when it was featured in royal courts from Great Britain to the Russian Empire. While experiencing cult wine popularity in the 1960s & 1970s, Picolit's extremely small yields have made it economically difficult to grow and has limited the number of plantings.[1]
It was assumed to be identical with the Hungarian grape variety Kéknyelű.[2][failed verification] But in 2006 isoenzymes and microsatellite analyses have confirmed that these two cultivars are different.[3]
^J. Robinson (ed) "The Oxford Companion to Wine" Third Edition pg 524 Oxford University Press 2006 ISBN 0198609906
^Picolit Archived 2012-05-13 at the Wayback Machine, Vitis International Variety Catalogue, accessed 2010-12-03
^Jahnke, G.; Korbuly, J.; Májer, J.; Molnár, J. Györffyné (2007). "Discrimination of the grapevine cultivars 'Picolit' and 'Kéknyelű' with molecular markers". Scientia Horticulturae. 114: 71–73. doi:10.1016/j.scienta.2007.05.011.
Picolit (also known as Piccolit and Piccolito) is a white Italian wine grape grown in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of northeast Italy. The grape is...
two passito wine DOCGs of Colli Orientali del Friuli Picolit and Colli Orientali del Friuli Picolit-Cialla. Viticulture has existed in the area since the...
grappa from a single grape variety by creating a liquor using only the Picolit grape. In 1984, the company produced the first whole-grape distillate,...
Italy and in part of the comune of Tarcento Colli Orientali del Friuli Picolit (Passito), produced in the province of Udine Rosazzo, produced in the province...
Carricante, Coda de Volpe, Cortese, Falanghina, Grechetto, Grillo, Inzolia, Picolit, Traminer, Verduzzo, and Vernaccia. Aglianico: considered to be one of...
full-bodied and honey taste. In the same area is produced even the prestigious Picolit, an extremely high quality passito wine. In the Treviso and Venice area...
this did not succeed. He also developed wine making and helped establish Picolit wine in collaboration with Count Fabio Asquini to compete with Hungarian...
promote silk culture in Italy. Asquini also pioneered wine making with the Picolit grape in the Friuli region of Italy and sold his wines all over Italy and...
Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 19 May 2024. "Italy (Prosecco & Picolit)". Ziraldo Wines. Retrieved 19 May 2024. "Wine industry pioneer named to...
Gialla, Pinot bianco, Pinot grigio, Sauvignon blanc, Riesling Renano and Picolit permitted to fill in the remainder. (Other Friuli DOCs will often add Chardonnay...
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