This is a list of varieties of cultivated grapes, whether used for wine, or eating as a table grape, fresh or dried (raisin, currant, sultana).
The term "grape varieties" actually refers to cultivars rather than botanical varieties according to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants, because they are propagated by cuttings and may have unstable reproductive properties. However, the term variety has become so entrenched in viticulture that any change to usage of the term cultivar is unlikely.
[edit] Single species grapes
While some of the grapes in this section are hybrids, they are hybridized within a single species (for example, Niagara). For those grapes hybridized across species, see the section on multispecies hybrid grapes below.
[edit] Red grapes
[edit] White grapes
[edit] Vitis vinifera (wine and table)
[edit] Red table grapes | [edit] White table grapes |
[edit] Wine grapes |
[edit] Red table grapes |
[edit] Purple table grapes | [edit] Varied/Other |
[edit] Vitis riparia (wine grape rootstock and hybridization source)
[edit] Multispecies hybrid grapes
[edit] Vinifera hybrids (wine)
Hybrid grape varieties (see Hybrid grapes) or "hybrids" is, in fact, the popular term for a subset of what are properly known as hybrids, specifically crossings between one species of the genus vitis and another. The scientific definition of a hybrid grape is any crossing (intra- or inter-specific) of two grape varieties. In keeping with the popular definition, however, the ones listed below are inter-specific hybrids where one parent is a European grape.
[edit] Vinifera hybrids (table)
[edit] Non-vinifera hybrids (table)
[edit] Non-vinifera hybrids (rootstock)
[edit] References & notes
[edit] See also
[edit] Further reading
[edit] External links
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