Fruit Characteristics of the Merlot Clones in Belgrade Wine Growing Region, Serbia

The clonal selection has contributed more variety and adaptability improved quantitative and qualitative characteristics and many of the best-known wine cultivars are ancient. Merlot is a typical example. In Bordeaux keeps about 300 potential clones, 13 were approved and wide diverse in the world. And in other countries were selected clones of variety Merlot, in our experiment we included clones R12, R5 and I-ISV-F-V4 from Italy, as we include two clones 181 and 348 originated from Bordeaux. In addition to the yield and quality, we were interested indicators supplied the composition of the cluster and berries. The bigger cluster with low seeds in berry and low total acid is clone characteristic of the I-ISV-F-V4, while the per share of sugar in close clones 348 and R-12 chargers.