cultivar - South African term for vine or grape variety
crossing - variety bred from members of the same species
cru classé, French for classed growth ...
CULTIVAR
An "in word" among some academic viticulturists (but not commercial wine people or the wine drinking public).
Cultivar
Term widely used in South Africa when referring to specific grape varieties.
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Another cultivar, called Cynthiana, closely resembles Norton, but has traditionally been considered a separate variety. Genetic studies, however, have shown the two to be indistinguishable.
PINOTAGE: Cultivar widely grown and successful in South Africa since its release in in 1925. Also currently grown in California (USA), Canada and Zimbabwe. Derived from the crossing of Pinot Noir x Cinsaut.
BLAUBURGER: Cultivar developed circa 1920 at the Klosterneuburg Viticultural College, Austria that resulted from a Portuguiser x Blaufränkisch cross. Mainly grown in Austria where it is used to create a fairly popular light red wine.
NOBLE: Muscadine cultivar widely grown in the S.E and Gulf states of the USA. Successfully used in Arkansas for producing red wine and juice. Similar to the Carlos grape above.
ONDENC: White-wine cultivar grown in France. Translocated to Australia where it is known under the alias names of Sercial and Irvines White.
The Noah grape is a cultivar derived from the grape species Vitis labrusca or 'fox grape' which is used for table, juice and wine production.
cultivarLike cepage, a word meaning grape variety. cuvaisonThe maceration of the grape skins during fermentation of red wine in order to transfer aroma, colour, and tannin to the wine.
PETITE SIRAH: Widely grown grape variety in California that a recent DNA analysis report, (9/1997), has shown as likely to be derived from the Peloursin and Syrah parent cultivars found in the Rhone region.
reverted to the wild species, cultivar grapevine. The earliest known reference to a "fox" grape occurs in the first part of the 17th century, specifically applied to cultivated North American grapes, ...
In California, the virtual rescue and revival of this cultivar was the result of a twelve-year quest by Karen Mulander-Magoon, co-proprietor of the Guenoc and Langtry Estates in Lake County.
To be scientifically correct, these are cultivars because they have been developed by selective breeding through human intervention over thousands of years, but throughout the wine world they a termed varieties.
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Vitis labrusca (of which the Concord grape is a cultivar), Vitis aestivalis, Vitis rupestris, Vitis rotundifolia and Vitis riparia are native North American grapes usually grown for consumption as fruit or for the production of grape juice, jam, ...
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