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A cultivated Common Grape Vine, Vitis vinifera subsp. vinifera. Use of grapes is known to date back to Neolithic times, following the discovery in 1996 of 7,000-year-old wine storage jars in present-day northern Iran. [26] Further evidence shows the Mesopotamians and Ancient Egyptians had vine plantations and winemaking skills.
Vitis labrusca, the fox grape, is a species of grapevines belonging to the Vitis genus in the flowering plant family Vitaceae.The vines are native to eastern North America and are the source of many grape cultivars, including Catawba, Concord, Delaware, Isabella, Niagara, and many hybrid grape varieties such as Agawam, Alexander and Onaka.
Vitis (grapevine) is a genus of 81 accepted species [5] of vining plants in the flowering plant family Vitaceae. The genus consists of species predominantly from the Northern Hemisphere. The genus consists of species predominantly from the Northern Hemisphere.
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.
Vitis vulpina (with common names frost grape, [2] winter grape, [1] [2] fox grape, [7] and wild grape. [7]) is a North American species of herbaceous perennial vines in the grape family.
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While the "petits grains" in the grape's name accurately describes the small, round berries of the vine, some wine experts, such as Oz Clarke, believe that the term "Muscat blanc" is misleading, since the grapevine is notorious for its frequent color mutations siring clusters of berries in nearly every shade possible though most commonly the ...
Vitis aestivalis, the summer grape, [1] or pigeon grape [2] is a species of grape native to eastern North America from southern Ontario east to Maine, west to Oklahoma, and south to Florida and Texas.