French Hybrids
The French and Europeans looked down on hybrids as being naturally inferior to their centuries-old grape varieties.
French hybrid - vine variety bred from American and European parents ...
French Hybrids
Refers to the grape varieties produced in France that are the result of crossing the classic European varieties with American species of vines.
VIGNOLES
French hybrid white wine grape, often used in the Eastern USA.
VIGOROUS
Assertive flavor, strong bodied wine.
Baco Noir: A French hybrid wine variety, used primarily in the eastern U.S. for dry, red table wines.
Bacterial: A tasting term often used by wine judges to describe wines with unpleasant, but ill defined off odors or flavors.
Other French hybrids include Aurora, Baco Noir, DeChaunac and Seyval Blanc, but Cayuga, Vidal and Vignoles are noted to make the best of the French hybrid varieties. Vignoles is used particularly well in late harvest wines and ice wines.
One of the most successful of the French Hybrids (crossings of North American native grapes and classic European grapes).
Also Ravat 51, a French-hybrid white-wine grape seen in the Eastern U.S. One of the most successful French hybrids, in my opinion; I've seen it vinified as a luscious sweet wine and also, with lightly toasted oak, ...
L'AMBERTILLE: White wine grape grown on small 1 acre plot in Finger Lakes region of W. New York. New name for French hybrid SV.23.512. Used to make a dry wine.
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