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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 .
A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis. Grapes are a non- climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters. The cultivation of grapes began perhaps 8,000 years ago, and the fruit has been used as human food over history. Eaten fresh or in dried form (as raisins ...
A field blend of red and white Italian grape varieties growing in the Etna region of Sicily. Grape: Color: Region: Abbuoto: Red: ... A complete guide to 1,368 vine ...
Table grape. Pione table grapes prior to harvesting. Table grapes are grapes intended for consumption while fresh, as opposed to grapes grown for wine production, juice production, or for drying into raisins . Vitis vinifera table grapes can be in the form of either seeded or non-seeded varietals and range widely in terms of colour, size ...
Vitis vinifera. L. Vitis vinifera, the common grape vine, is a species of flowering plant, native to the Mediterranean region, Central Europe, and southwestern Asia, from Morocco and Portugal north to southern Germany and east to northern Iran. [2] As of 2012 there were between 5,000 and 10,000 varieties of Vitis vinifera grapes though only a ...
1279. ISBN. 978-1-846-14446-2. Wine Grapes - A complete guide to 1,368 vine varieties, including their origins and flavours is a reference book about varieties of wine grapes. The book covers all grape varieties that were known to produce commercial quantities of wine at the time of writing, which meant 1,368 of the known 10,000 varieties.
Montepulciano (UK: / ˌ m ɒ n t eɪ p ʊ l ˈ tʃ ɑː n oʊ,-t ɪ p-/ MON-tay-puul-CHAH-noh, -tih-, Italian: [ˌmontepulˈtʃaːno]) is a red Italian wine grape variety that is most noted for being the primary grape behind the DOCG wines Colline Teramane Montepulciano d'Abruzzo and Offida Rosso; and the DOC wines Montepulciano d'Abruzzo, Rosso Conero, and Rosso Piceno Superiore.
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.