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This list of grape varieties includes cultivated grapes, whether used for wine, or eating as a table grape, fresh or dried (raisin, currant, sultana). For a complete list of all grape species, including those unimportant to agriculture, see Vitis .
These elongated seedless grapes, also called Sweet Sapphires, were bred by International Fruit Genetics, a California-based fruit breeding and patenting company, and launched in 2004.
A currant is a dried Zante Black Corinth grape, the name being a corruption of the French raisin de Corinthe (Corinth grape). The names of the black and red currant, now more usually blackcurrant and redcurrant, two berries unrelated to grapes, are derived from this use. Some other fruits of similar appearance are also so named, for example ...
Cultivation of the domesticated grape spread to other parts of the Old World in pre-historic or early historic times. [9] The first written accounts of grapes and wine can be found in the Epic of Gilgamesh, an ancient Sumerian text from the 3rd millennium BC. There are also numerous hieroglyphic references from ancient Egypt, according to which ...
Vinho Verde is not a grape variety, it is a DOC for the production of wine. The name means 'green wine', but translates as "young wine", with wine being released three to six months after the grapes are harvested. [1] They may be red, white or rosé, [2] and they are usually consumed soon after bottling. [3]
Natural bunch grapes with seeds from Alicante add "an element of fun to the tradition of the 12 grapes." The seeds provide a "crunchy touch," the supermarket said .
Niagara is the leading green grape grown in the United States. A purple variety, known as "pink" niagara (niágara rosada), exists and is the main niagara cultivated in southern Brazil , principally in the states of São Paulo , where the variety first occurred in 1933, [ 2 ] and Rio Grande do Sul .
As Riesling plantings expand, so do other white grapes like smooth Auxerrois, aromatic Kerner, peppery Grüner Veltliner, and even Albariño. Michigan winemakers are taking cues from both old ...