Catawba
Catawba is a hybrid grape, from the eastern U.S. and Canada, that produces sweet white, red, and rosé wines that have a foxy aroma.
Chablis
Chablis is a wine region in France, named after the village nearby.
Catawba
Hearty and productive, well-established in American winemaking history, Catawba tends to ripen late. So it often has inadequate sugar levels.
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CATAWBA
An American hybrid wine grape grown in the eastern United States wine regions and used to make sparkling wines, rosé and very fruity white wines.
CAVA
The name for Sparkling Wine from Spain.
CATAWBA:
A native American - ("vitis labrusca") - grape used to produce sweet white, red and rose' wines distinguished by a so-called "foxy" component. Commonly grown in the Eastern U.S. and Canada.
Catawba: An American hybrid wine grape grown in the eastern U.S. wine regions and used to make sparkling wines, rosé and very fruity white wines.
CATAWBA: This historically important cultivar is reportedly a N. Carolina chance seedling discovered in 1802.
labrusca grapes such as the Concord or Catawba varieties. The term "fox" has traditionally been a pejorative name given by grapegrowers to the fruit of a feral, ie. reverted to the wild species, cultivar grapevine.
However, the discovery in 1802 of the Catawba grape led to very successful winemaking in Ohio. By 1842 Nicholas Longworth was growing 1,200 acres (almost two square miles) of Catawba grapes and making the country's first sparkling wine.
labrusca grapes (Catawba, Delaware, Niagra, etc.) are used to make wines of limited regional popularity and also the grape (Concord) almost singularly used for jam, jelly, and juice. In the Southeastern U.S., V.
labrusca grapes such as the Concord or Catawba varieties. Derived from the french phrase "gout de renard" which literally translates as "odour" or "taste" of fox, but means something more like "presence of fox" in the intangible sense.
Labrusca: Grape types native to North America such as Concord and Catawba.
Late harvest: A term used to describe dessert wines made from grapes left on the vines for an extra long period, often until botrytis has set in.
In comparison, the Vitis Labrusca species is the set of grape vines native to the eastern US - Concord, Catawba, Delaware, Niagara. These grapes are often looked down on for having a "foxy" flavor to them.
Foxy
Term used to describe the strong grapey smell and taste of some wines made from our native Eastern grapes, such as Concord, Catawba, Niagara, and Delaware. Such grapes once were called "fox grapes," which accounts for the word "foxy." ...
Among the most important hybrids varieties of the state we find the white berried Cayuga, Niagara, Seyval Blanc, Vidal Blanc and Vignoles, whereas red varieties include Baco Noir, Catawba and Concord.
 See also: Wine, Grape, Concord, Vineyard, Vitis vinifera
  
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