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The scuppernong is a large variety of muscadine (Vitis rotundifolia), [1] a species of grape native to the southern United States. It is usually a greenish or bronze color and is similar in appearance and texture to a white grape, but rounder and larger.
North Carolina muscadine grapes. There are about 152 [11] muscadine cultivars grown in the Southern states. [12] These include bronze, black and red varieties and consist of common grapes and patented grapes. [13] Unlike most cultivated grapevines, many muscadine cultivars are pistillate, requiring a pollenizer to set fruit.
The grape is a cross of the Swiss wine grape Chasselas and Muscat d'Eisenstadt (also known as Muscat de Saumur). Of all of the major Muscat varieties, Muscat Ottonel has the most pale skin color, and tends to produce the most neutral wines and is also the grape variety that ripens the earliest.
A typical grape pie Torta Bertolina. A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis. Churchkhela – grape must is a main ingredient; Grape hull pie – pie made out of muscadine grapes and grape skins. Grape ice cream – ice cream with a grape flavor, some recipes use grape juice in ...
Vitis californica, the California wild grape, or Northern California grape, or Pacific grape, is a wild grape species widespread across much of California as well as southwestern Oregon; Vitis coignetiae, the crimson glory vine, a species from East Asia grown as an ornamental plant for its crimson autumn foliage
The varieties of the muscadine grape can be either light or dark and have very thick skins which make them highly resistant to fungal and bacterial diseases that thrive in humid weather. As the health benefits of wine gain significance in the wine industry, so do muscadines, as it is known that their thick skins contain high levels of the ...
On the vine, grapes are organized through systems known as clusters. Grape clusters can vary in compactness which can result in long clusters (resulting in the grapes spreading out) or short clusters (resulting in grapes packed together). [31] In some grape species, clusters ripen collectively, which allows them to be harvested together. [32]
Black Muscat (Muscat of Hamburg) ripening on the vine. Black Muscat (or Muscat Hamburg) is a red Vitis vinifera grape variety derived from the crossing of the Schiava Grossa and Muscat of Alexandria by Seward Snow, Head Gardener to Earl de Grey at Wrest Park, Bedfordshire UK in 1850, according to the Vitis International Variety Catalogue.