Cherry

Vigorous stock of large production, that is rustic and resistant to the salinity, however it is sensitive to the peronosporaceae and rupture of grains. This is used as rootstock to be grafted, because of the previously mentioned characteristics, as it usually happens for example in San Juan, to graft the Moscatel of Alexandria or some other variety.

Big Creole and Small Creole

Used for wines of little quality, especially for blends. These stocks are spread in the whole of Cuyo. Their bunchs are big and plenty of branches, their berries darker and smaller than those of the Cherry.

Pink Moscatel

It is a vigorous and productive stock, there exist several clones; some markedly faulty due to their high tendency to the “slide” derived from the nature of their floral biology. Moreover it is rustic, of good production and very resistant to the deseases. It is estimated that its preference is due to its characteristic bouquet and, consequently, to the tendency of the consumption of wines with Moscatel taste and bouquet in the most important markets of the country.

Rioja and San Juan Torrontés

As they can not be identified with any European variety and thereby not knowing their antecedents, they are included with didactic aims in the so called “creole stocks”, as synonym of native.

These varieties are spread in the Northwest, mainly in La Rioja, Salta, Catamarca, they are also known in San Juan and Río Negro. They are vigorous and productive varieties, with prominent and very typical aromatic characteristics, that in careful productions give high-quality products, making these wines have an exceedingly well-defined and very pleasant personality, mainly the Riojano Torrontés.